I am a woman who writes. I am a writer who is a woman. In the Words
of a Woman is an exploration of how these two facts of my life merge and
influence each other. It is a work written to mediate between the supposed
dichotomies of creative and critical, personal and academic, imaginative and
scholarly. My desire is that this text will serve as autobiography, critical inquiry,
creative response, and credo. The form of this thesis dances between prose
and poetry. I have thoughts that need to be expressed sometimes in one form,
sometimes in the other, and sometimes in the interplay of the two. As a
collection of essays, I have brought together works that are primarily concerned
with my story as a woman and a writer with essays that articulate my
engagement in other women's writing. Within and between the prose pieces, I
have included poems that touch on the same topics, giving different shadings
to these themes. This text is a May Day dance, a joyous enactment of a
performance long in the creating and rehearsing, not without struggles and
challenges, but I hope for the reader a pleasure to participate in. / Graduation date: 1998
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/33922 |
| Date | 26 June 1997 |
| Creators | Rose, Kerin G. |
| Contributors | Ede, Lisa |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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