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Date of Award

5-2024

Culminating Project Type

Thesis

Styleguide

mla

Degree Name

English: M.A.

Department

English

College

College of Liberal Arts

First Advisor

Sarah Green

Second Advisor

Judith Dorn

Third Advisor

Jaya Jacobo

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Keywords and Subject Headings

BODY HORROR, QUEER, POSTCOLONIAL, SEXUALITY, FILIPINO

Abstract

This poetry collection discusses the body as a medium of horror, and how these horrors can continue to explore the intersections of cultural identity, gender, queerness, sexuality, and trauma. This project is divided into two parts. The first part of the project is an academic preface which focuses on dissecting how the body as a central image can be used in exploring how the presence of an external power or empire can push the transformation of a subject into an inhuman state. The second part is a collection of original poetry. Through this poetry collection, I explore the narrative of gender and queerness as a lived experience and as a human relationship of connection which impacts one’s own relationship towards body and its horrors—asking the reader, what does it truly mean to have a body? What does it mean to have the body you’re in, taking into account that the body is always a figure that is both a constant in one’s human identity, and yet also always changing or shifting due to human biology? The body is an everyday horror: these questions defamiliarize what we understand of a body, and thus, impact one’s identity.

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