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Date of Award
10-9-2013
Document Type
Dissertation-ISU Access Only
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Department of English: English Studies
First Advisor
Duriel E. Harris
Abstract
Iffy the Crumbsnatcher is a collection of poems and creative writing that examines and embodies a genderqueer, sexually amorphous character called Iffy. Written in a formally experimental style, the poems explore how violence, trauma, and worldly experience merge to shape Iffy's worldview. The dissertation includes a critical preface that theorizes how anxiety about authentic identity and the abject combine to create a poetics of emergency evident in contemporary American avant-garde poetics. Finally, the dissertation concludes with considerations for teaching bulk-time poetry, using liberatory pedagogical strategies, tagmemics, chronotopic lamination, and cultural-historical activity theory as frames for reconsidering how poetry pedagogy can be revised as student-centric and multi-disciplinary.
Recommended Citation
Halle Jr., Craig Steven, "Iffy the Crumbsnatcher" (2013). Theses and Dissertations. 40.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/40
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2013.Halle.C
Page Count
193
Comments
Imported from ProQuest HalleJr_ilstu_0092E_10074.pdf