Orifice of Return

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dc.contributor.authorAnkong, Honora Awamieen
dc.contributor.committeechairSmith, Carmen Gimenezen
dc.contributor.committeememberMeitner, Erika S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberRoy, Lucinda H.en
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-16T08:00:34Zen
dc.date.available2022-06-16T08:00:34Zen
dc.date.issued2022-06-15en
dc.description.abstractOrifice of Return is a collection of poetry that posits Black femme bodies as living and breathing archives, corporeal manifestations of intuitive and intellectual claims at survival. The poems in this collection illustrate the multifaceted nature of my craft, through which the personal, the collective, and the political are commingled, but wrestling forces. As Audre Lorde declares, there are many kinds of open, the poems of this collection are orifices, textual portals, spatial and temporal fissures, and entryways into Black past, present, and future. These poems use received forms (the ghazal, the ode, the cento, the obverse, litany, etc.) and employ stylistic devices like (direct address, song lyrics, colloquial speech and slang, etc.) These poems interrogate histories and imagine speculative futures for Black folks. They exist in lineage— familial, imagined, literary ancestral, and with the theoretical underpinnings of Black feminist hauntology and Toni Morrison's "rememory." Some of these poems are lyrically driven, while others are performance and rhythmically driven— all facing inwards and outwards, aware of the world they exist in.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralORIFICE OF RETURN is a poetry collection.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Fine Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:34774en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/110794en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectImmigrationen
dc.subjectexileen
dc.subjectBlack joyen
dc.subjectspeculativeen
dc.subjectnamingen
dc.subjectlineageen
dc.subjectBlack pop cultureen
dc.subjectthe Middle Passageen
dc.subjectQueernessen
dc.subjectdesireen
dc.subjectghostsen
dc.subjectgriefen
dc.subjectwhite supremacyen
dc.subjectmusicen
dc.subjecthome and homelandsen
dc.subjectBlack womxn's bodiesen
dc.subjecttransatlanticen
dc.subjectancestorsen
dc.subjectrememoryen
dc.subjectBlack feminisen
dc.titleOrifice of Returnen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineCreative Writingen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Artsen

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