Shout Me Home

<p>My poetry collection, <em>Shout Me Home</em>, is centered on the theme of coming-of-age within the context of familial trauma and societal, religious, and cultural expectations. The speaker juxtaposes their mental health struggles with that of their grandmother’s, referred to as granmé, and questions their life growing up with her and their identity as a Haitian American/Afro-Caribbean woman. The poems criticize, embrace, and reflect on these themes while connecting how these circumstances shape the speaker's current self and how much can change in the aftermath.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW)

Level thesis:degree_level

Capstone

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2022

Author dc:creator

• Douyon, Tyra

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jenny Sadre-Orafai
• Chris Martin

• poetry
• poems
• poetry collection
• family
• identity
• mental health
• intergenerational trauma
• schizophrenia
• Haitian American
• Haitian
• Creative Writing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mapw_etd/127

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:mapw_etd-1131