A book of poetry that uses avant-garde, post-modernist writing practices such as fragmented syntax, disjunctive narrative, a multiplicity of speakers and collage to explore female American identity in the 21st century as a historical construct. These poems situate themselves within the tradition of American poetry by carrying on the work of the historical avant-garde exemplified by writers such as Marianne Moore, Mina Loy and Laura Riding. The poems also draw from poets such as Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop, who come from a lyric-narrative tradition. In this sense, the poems embody and celebrate hybridity. This manuscript is a continuation of the thematic concerns of feminism, leftist political action, and writing itself began in Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008). However, this volume departs from Warsaw Bikini in that it discusses the institutions of marriage and motherhood. The poems ultimately seek to dislocate, disjoin and dismantle these institutions through linguistic and artistic interrogations; thus the poems are activist in nature and proceed by responding to current feminist debates within self-proclaimed 'experimental' writing communities. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2010. / March 23, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references. / David Kirby, Professor Directing Dissertation; Matthew Goff, University Representative; Elaine Treharne, Committee Member; Barbara Hamby, Committee Member; Ned Stuckey-French, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_183634 |
| Contributors | Simonds, Sandra (authoraut), Kirby, David (professor directing dissertation), Goff, Matthew (university representative), Treharne, Elaine (committee member), Hamby, Barbara (committee member), Stuckey-French, Ned (committee member), Department of English (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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