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Browsing by Author "Salinas, Shanna, 1975-"
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Aadizooke: A Tribalography
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Daughter, We Are Gypsies
(2014)The author describes how her poetry collection transformed from a collection of poems based on the oral histories of women like her own mother who crossed the border from Mexico to a more personal collection: “it became ... -
(De)constructing the Tangibility of Borders : a Collection Exploring Spatiality, Fluidity, and, Self (Be)coming within the Process of Navigating through Transformations in Ambiguity
(2018)About her original poems, the author writes “This collection reflects the homesickness and uncertainty felt towards the beginning of my time at Kalamazoo, with pieces such as "My Father, El Tlaxcaltec", "My Mother, La ... -
home / body : collected poems and essays
(2020-04-01)The author writes, “Initially, the goal of my SIP was to take the idea of brownness and dissect it. I wanted to write about what it meant and felt like to be brown from a small, conservative, and racially homogenous town; ... -
Hood-Ass Weirdo : Poetic Writings Exploring The Queer, Latinx Body’s Relationships with/to Sexual Liberation, Temporal Urban Spaces, and Immigrant Familial Relationships
(2019)The author discusses the many relationships between her Chicago neighborhood, gender identity, literary theories and influences. She writes, “To balance out the theoretical frameworks used in my thesis, I incorporated ... -
How to Lose Yourself
(2014)I didn’t set out to make my collection like a map mottled with pushpins that refer to different works of literature (and to a lesser extent, music and art) visited. Only in reflection did I notice the frequency of ... -
“Lemonade Stand” : A Critical Analysis on Loving the Black Body in Beyonce’s Lemonade
(2020)Just two year after the release of Lemonade Beyoncé became the first Black woman to headline Coachella. Not only did she make history, but she was able to define who she was an artist. Lemonade allowed Beyoncé to define ... -
NailTrap : A Web of Dynamic Linear Perspectives Through Poetic Entanglements of Nail Salons, Family (politics), Stories and Vietnamese Diasporic Understandings
(2020-04-01)A poetic argument of Vietnamese refugees settled in the U.S. through the nail salon space as they ‘belong’ there but not in other spaces; reveal entanglements of relationships between family, community, customer/technician, ... -
Pete Pock-A-Doo and Beverly, Too : Memoirs of a Dad and Daughter
(2012)The author creates a work of autobiographical fiction inspired by works by Scott Momaday and Sandra Cisneros that intersperses audio recordings of her father with her own memoir. In her introduction, the author describes ... -
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Rise of the Web Comic: Becoming a Graphic Culture
(2013)The author reviews the history of comics and the transition to online comics, discusses her own artistic influences, and then describes the development and artistic process of her own online comic, Application Process ... -
Straight Outta Cairo: Dispatches From the Ongoing Egyptian Revolution
(2013)The author uses a combination of essay and poetry to explore his own experience of the Egyptian Revolution on the ground in Cairo and the village of Abusir in the Fall of 2012. He takes inspiration from the writings of ... -
Two Kings in Their Labyrinths : Mark Z. Danielewski, Jorge Luis Borges and the (In)Finitude of House of Leaves
(2021-06-01)A key question that lay at the core of my SIP research was “what/who is an author?” This is an idea that has been the subject of a great deal of critical analysis. Michel Foucault famously took on this question in a 1969 ... -
"we are all of paper": Hypertextual Bodily Instantiation and Colonized Narrative in Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper
(2016)To scaffold my intervention into the novel, the theory and literature I encountered in both ENGL-223 Chicana/o Literature and ENGL-436 Literary Theory was foundational in building to the final section that analyzes in ... -
魔女 : Ma-Jo
(2019)The author describes how the transcendent beauty she found in the parks and shrines of Tokyo while studying abroad in Japan influenced her original novella.
