Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis 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.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Year dc:date.available
- 2029
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Coble, Alea
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Wymer, Justin
- Palmer, Heather; Baker, Sybil; Babine, Karen, 1978-
- College of Arts and Sciences
Subjects
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dc:rights- Language dc:language
- English, eng
Identifiers
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- https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/1039
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2226