{"id":{"repo_id":"utc","oai_identifier":"oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2226"},"canonical_url":"https://search.dev.ndltd.org/etd/utc/oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2226","repository":{"repo_id":"utc","name":"University of Tennessee - Chattanooga","base_url":"https://scholar.utc.edu/do/oai/"},"display":{"title":"You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony","abstract":"This thesis contains two parts: a craft essay titled “Shapes of Refusal: The Anti-Testimony and Realizing Hope through Form” and a multi-modal manuscript consisting of hybrid poetic forms titled You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony. The creative writing manuscript is a re-imagining of admissible evidence based on the needs of victims of sexual assault who are often re-traumatized by the U.S. justice system. The craft essay applies a critical lens based on Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed to analyze narrative fractalization, intentional opacity, and queer rhetorical re-orientation in two formally and thematically related works: Precious Rubbish by Kayla E. and Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. The craft essay relates this analysis to the creative manuscript to posit that it is an original minor form invented by the author called an anti-testimony.","abstract_html":"This thesis contains two parts: a craft essay titled “Shapes of Refusal: The Anti-Testimony and Realizing Hope through Form” and a multi-modal manuscript consisting of hybrid poetic forms titled You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony. The creative writing manuscript is a re-imagining of admissible evidence based on the needs of victims of sexual assault who are often re-traumatized by the U.S. justice system. The craft essay applies a critical lens based on Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed to analyze narrative fractalization, intentional opacity, and queer rhetorical re-orientation in two formally and thematically related works: Precious Rubbish by Kayla E. and Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. The craft essay relates this analysis to the creative manuscript to posit that it is an original minor form invented by the author called an anti-testimony.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Coble, Alea"],"institution":"University of Tennessee at Chattanooga","degree_name":null,"degree_level":null,"degree_discipline":null,"degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Wymer, Justin","Palmer, Heather; Baker, Sybil; Babine, Karen, 1978-","College of Arts and Sciences"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2029,"date_issued":"2029-01-01T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2029-01-01T08:00:00Z","updated_at":"2026-07-24T05:47:28Z","subjects":["Experimental poetry, American","Justice, Administration of--United States--Psychological aspects","Sexual abuse victims' writings, American"],"languages":["English","eng"],"rights":[],"rights_urls":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/1039","outbound_label":"Repository record","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["Wymer, Justin","Palmer, Heather; Baker, Sybil; Babine, Karen, 1978-","College of Arts and Sciences"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Coble, Alea"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date","label":"Dc Date","values":["2025-12-01T08:00:00Z"]},{"key":"dc:date.available","label":"Dc Date Available","values":["2029-01-01T08:00:00Z"]},{"key":"dc:publisher","label":"Institution","values":["University of Tennessee at Chattanooga","Chattanooga (Tenn.)"]},{"key":"dc:relation","label":"Dc Relation","values":["Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations"]},{"key":"dc:type","label":"Dc Type","values":["Masters theses","Text"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["Experimental poetry, American","Justice, Administration of--United States--Psychological aspects","Sexual abuse victims' writings, American"]}]},{"id":"language_rights","label":"Language and Rights","entries":[{"key":"dc:language","label":"Dc Language","values":["English","eng"]},{"key":"dc:rights","label":"Dc Rights","values":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/1039"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description","label":"Description","values":["Dept. of English","M. A.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts."]},{"key":"dc:description.abstract","label":"Abstract","values":["This thesis contains two parts: a craft essay titled “Shapes of Refusal: The Anti-Testimony and Realizing Hope through Form” and a multi-modal manuscript consisting of hybrid poetic forms titled You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony. The creative writing manuscript is a re-imagining of admissible evidence based on the needs of victims of sexual assault who are often re-traumatized by the U.S. justice system. The craft essay applies a critical lens based on Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed to analyze narrative fractalization, intentional opacity, and queer rhetorical re-orientation in two formally and thematically related works: Precious Rubbish by Kayla E. and Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. The craft essay relates this analysis to the creative manuscript to posit that it is an original minor form invented by the author called an anti-testimony."]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Wymer, Justin","Palmer, Heather; Baker, Sybil; Babine, Karen, 1978-","College of Arts and Sciences"],"dc:creator":["Coble, Alea"],"dc:date":["2025-12-01T08:00:00Z"],"dc:date.available":["2029-01-01T08:00:00Z"],"dc:description":["Dept. of English","M. A.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts."],"dc:description.abstract":["This thesis contains two parts: a craft essay titled “Shapes of Refusal: The Anti-Testimony and Realizing Hope through Form” and a multi-modal manuscript consisting of hybrid poetic forms titled You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony. The creative writing manuscript is a re-imagining of admissible evidence based on the needs of victims of sexual assault who are often re-traumatized by the U.S. justice system. The craft essay applies a critical lens based on Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed to analyze narrative fractalization, intentional opacity, and queer rhetorical re-orientation in two formally and thematically related works: Precious Rubbish by Kayla E. and Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. The craft essay relates this analysis to the creative manuscript to posit that it is an original minor form invented by the author called an anti-testimony."],"dc:identifier":["https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/1039"],"dc:language":["English","eng"],"dc:publisher":["University of Tennessee at Chattanooga","Chattanooga (Tenn.)"],"dc:relation":["Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations"],"dc:rights":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"dc:subject":["Experimental poetry, American","Justice, Administration of--United States--Psychological aspects","Sexual abuse victims' writings, American"],"dc:title":["You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony"],"dc:type":["Masters theses","Text"]},"updated_at":"2026-07-24T05:47:28Z"}