Date of Award
1-1-2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
M.F.A. in Creative Writing
Department
English
First Advisor
Beth Ann Fennelly
Second Advisor
Derrick Harriell
Third Advisor
Karen Raber
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
Invoking “the wound” as a space of semiotic, subjective, narrative, and hegemonic rupture, The Wound Is (Not) Real interrogates trauma and its effects on the formation of adolescent masculinity. Synthesizing and rejecting the conventions of lyric-narrative poetry, the prose poem, critical prose, and the memoir, The Wound Is (Not) Real ultimately attempts to link “woundedness” to poetic language itself, suggesting that poetry rises out of rupture and trauma. I seek to give poetic language its own form of agency; one which resists contextualization or New Critical modes of explication.
Recommended Citation
Cain, Martin M., "The Wound Is (Not) Real" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1243.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1243