Tranny Muse

dc.contributor.authorPortela, Taylor Bruceen
dc.contributor.committeechairSmith, Carmen Gimenezen
dc.contributor.committeememberLavender-Smith, Evanen
dc.contributor.committeememberMeitner, Erika S.en
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-20T08:00:24Zen
dc.date.available2022-05-20T08:00:24Zen
dc.date.issued2022-05-19en
dc.description.abstractTranny Muse is a poetry collection that interrogates personal, historical, and socio-cultural genealogies, functioning as both a record and an archive. As the speaker of these poems, I explore my life thus far: from growing up Mormon and coming out as gay and trans/nonbinary to performing in drag and finding new forms for home and community. The collection, organized by books of prose and lineated poems, enacts yet queers traditional genre conventions by transgressing their boundaries as I wrestle with finding form for desire, ethics, trauma, and dis/eu-phoria.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralTranny Muse is a poetry collection.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Fine Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:34522en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/110121en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectpoetryen
dc.subjectLGBTQ studiesen
dc.subjecttrans studiesen
dc.subjectgenderen
dc.subjectsexualityen
dc.subjectdesireen
dc.subjectgenealogyen
dc.subjectreligionen
dc.subjectphilosophyen
dc.subjectchildhooden
dc.subjectadolescenceen
dc.subjectadulthooden
dc.subjectillnessen
dc.subjectgriefen
dc.subjecttraumaen
dc.subjectloveen
dc.subjectdragen
dc.subjectRadical Faeriesen
dc.titleTranny Museen
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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