Hull

HULL is a manuscript driven by bodily and imagined notions of witness that marry and complicate the historical and public with the personal and private. HULL is the buoyancy of a paradox; the un-shakable hyper corporeality of a body both Black and woman, and the social and spiritual liminality of Black womanhood. This collection is centered around a contemporary Black, queer, femme voice, and moves beyond the deeply familiar, beyond any implied monolith of definitive Blackness. These poems navigate memory, both experienced and inherited to chart moments of tenderness and brutality that people within the African Diaspora have experienced.

Name thesis:degree_name

MFA

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Department dc:contributor.department

Creative Writing

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Phillips, Alexandria Marie

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Meitner, Erika S.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Giovanni, Nikki
• Roy, Lucinda H.

• Poetry
• African American
• Queer
• Black womanhood

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:9368

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/107149