CSUniversity San Bernardino
THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p><em>The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking</em> is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions of the Bronx. This multi-platform performance highlights the metaphorical and physical concerns with the cycle of violence. This question is answered through the Poet’s choice by selecting the pen over the gun.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Project
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year dc:date.available
- 2016
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Avila, Alex
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Delgado, Juan
Subjects
dc:subject × 84- Bronx
- St. Mary's Housing
- Multi-media
- Avila
- Alex
- Avila Production
- 4e
- CSUSB
- San Bernardino
- New York City
- Bx
- Hip Hop
- Spanglish
- Spanish
- Ebonics
- Garifuna
- Honduras
- African
- Jazz
- Funk
- Blues
- poetry
- violence
- history
- anthropology
- mambo
- merengue
- ragtime
- W. E. B. Du Bios
- community
- Puerto Rican
- Lenape
- Native American
- Latino
- Jonas Bronck
- P.S. 5 Elementary school
- Black boy
- black people
- black
- Cabell Calloway
- Cab Calloway
- immigrants
- lyrical poem
- didactic poem
- spoken word
- 3rd avenue
- the hub
- rolex
- wolverine
- yankee fitted
- black linguistic
- African diaspora
- allegorical
- Boricuas
- trickster
- Griot
- William Shakespeare
- Dewitt Clinton High School
- Port Morris
- heroine
- crack cocaine
- preacher
- drugs
- God
- reflection
- facebooking
- youtubing
- unemployment
- Ajax
- toothbrush
- Multifarious
- Prose
- Performance
- Multifarious Prose Performance
- coined
- ATLANTIC Ocean
- east coast
- west coast
- Carter Harrison
- Nommo
- The drama of Nommo
- the Bronx tale
- Young Visionaries
- Youth Actio
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/394
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-1451