Date of Award
2012
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing
Keywords
Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Abjection, Disjunctive, Error, Experimental, Poetry
Supervisor
Nicole Markotic
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
"Leak" is a poetry manuscript with accompanying artist statement that explores the overlaps, gaps, and fissures of mind, body and text. The manuscript uses disjunctive poetic techniques, listing, sorting, and organizing of language, as well as a shifting subject, in order to represent the fragmentation and multiplicity of mind, body and text. "Leak" challenges hegemonic depictions of women's bodies through representing the "unrepresentable," abject bodies overflowing their own borders. "Leak's" bodies lose pieces and fall apart, while words slip out of place and letters drop away. Emergency room signage becomes incomprehensible, the census requests bodily measurements, a cyclist confuses oil with her own blood. Such textual gaps and overlaps contribute to "Leak's" intentional sense of unfinishedness, reflective of the impossibility of signifying one coherent mind, body, or text.
Recommended Citation
Hargreaves, Kate Victoria, "Leak" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4776.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/4776