Publication Date
5-2018
Date of Final Oral Examination (Defense)
3-1-2018
Type of Culminating Activity
Thesis
Degree Title
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Department
English
Supervisory Committee Chair
Martin Corless-Smith, Ph.D.
Supervisory Committee Member
Janet Holmes, M.F.A.
Supervisory Committee Member
Dora Ramirez, Ph.D.
Abstract
Shimmer is a collection of poems that explores the unfixed nature of self-construction through the complications of intersectionality. Throughout the text, the speaker, possessing multiple positions that share the locus of the singular unified body, navigates existing power structures in various publics in which bodies and cultures are read and deemed legible or illegible to situated hegemonic social structures. Through confessional and lyric strategies, the speaker reflects on the rituals that reify culturally informed social contracts within diverse publics.
DOI
10.18122/td/1400/boisestate
Recommended Citation
Lau, Daniel, "Shimmer" (2018). Boise State University Theses and Dissertations. 1400.
10.18122/td/1400/boisestate