Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p><em>The Hibiscus Snake</em> is a collection of poetry investigating the female experience encountering danger. She explores psychic landscapes descended in the unconscious uncanny, the feminine body within the context of horror, and lyrical poems about living in working class communities in San Bernardino. The collection attempts to subvert the presentation of the female body in Horror genres, moving it from a position of victimization to empowerment. In other poems, the speaker ventures into horror-like psychic landscapes filled with images representing the anxiety experienced growing up in a city where danger is quite real. The protagonist risks these journeys to overcome her fear and achieve a transformation. The collection also contains elegies written in lyrical, free-verse form. I also explicate how I employ line breaks to exaggerate the multiplicity of lines, words and connotations. This collection works toward understanding and redefining the female experience and identity within a range of male dominated contexts and dangerous environments.</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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- Harlin, Andrea Nikki
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- John Chad Sweeney
Subjects
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dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/368
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-1362