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A Space Through Which Light Passes
Abstract
The following dissertation titled, "A Space Through Which Light Passes," includes a sample of creative work from a larger book length manuscript in progress and a selection of poems from my forthcoming book, Bone Language. In this dissertation I rely predominately on lyric poems to engage themes of displacement, longing and melancholy as personal interior spaces of existence as well as how these spaces intersect with the legacy of colonialism including the institutional powers of patriarchy, capitalism, and misogyny.Some of the topics I grapple with are surviving cancer as a woman of color, the mother/daughter relationship within the shadows of addiction, motherhood as that which is out of reach post cancer, and the role of language as a tool for survival and a weapon used against my survival and the survival of those I love, among other topics. Many of these poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in distinguished literary journals and magazines including Guernica, Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, RHINO, World Literature Today, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Ploughshares.
Subject Area
Creative writing|Womens studies
Recommended Citation
Baldwin, Jamaica, "A Space Through Which Light Passes" (2023). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI30488305.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI30488305