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Autoscopy

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Autoscopy is a poetry collection that constellates together the speaker's ancestral experience of Jewish diaspora and genocide, the ongoing oppression and genocide of Palestinians, and the anti-Black racism that led to the police-murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In all, the speaker is at once close and far from what they witness, both personally impacted and implicated by their witnessing. In documentary, translation, prayer, elegiac, confessional, and experimental modes, these poems locate the possibility and need for a reimagined mode of kinship, using diasporic and queer desire as a means of reparation.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Fine Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Creative Writing
Department dc:contributor.department
English
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2024

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Gershberg, Alexander
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Queen, Khadijah
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Cassinelli, Silas M.
  • Terazawa, Sophia Emi

Subjects

dc:subject × 17

Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:40151
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/118908

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2026-07-22
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citation

Gershberg, Alexander. Autoscopy. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10919/118908