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Excavation Of Silenced Voices: (Re)Visiting Menka Shivdasani’S Frazil Through The Modern Feminist Discourse Of Indian Writing In English, Rangnath Thakur, Binod Mishra
Excavation Of Silenced Voices: (Re)Visiting Menka Shivdasani’S Frazil Through The Modern Feminist Discourse Of Indian Writing In English, Rangnath Thakur, Binod Mishra
Journal of International Women's Studies
The postmodernist phase of Indian English writing is characterized by the voices of many strong women expressing a feminist exploration of alternative discourses in women’s writing which are distinguished from the patriarchal framework of literary discourse. Along with Kamala Das, Meena Alexander, Imtiaz Dharkar, and Eunice de Souza, Menka Shivdasani is an active voice in contemporary Indian English poetry. Shivdasani is a prolific poet who has written poetry on various social, cultural, religious, and personal issues. Her four poetry collections include Nirvana at Ten Rupees (1990), Stet (2001), Safe House (2015), and Frazil (2018). Through her poetry, she has endeavored …
Mental Illness And Creativity In The Selected Poetry Of Robert Lowell And Anne Sexton, Nicholas Huard
Mental Illness And Creativity In The Selected Poetry Of Robert Lowell And Anne Sexton, Nicholas Huard
Honors Program Theses and Projects
One should never underestimate the potential of someone who suffers from mental illness, as many individuals with mental illness can create great art. Madness, after all, can be seen as a sign of genius. The goal of this thesis is to show how mental illness and creativity are connected. Despite suffering bouts of madness, poets such as Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton displayed genius through their poetry. “Skunk Hour” by Lowell and, Sexton’s “45 Mercy Street” depict madness while displaying a deep understanding of poetic form.
Unraveling Milk And Honey: Women’S Voice, Patriarchy, And Sexuality, Renidia Audinia Siva, Ida Rosida, Muhammad Azwar
Unraveling Milk And Honey: Women’S Voice, Patriarchy, And Sexuality, Renidia Audinia Siva, Ida Rosida, Muhammad Azwar
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article discusses patriarchy and sexuality portrayed in Milk and Honey; a poetry collection written by Canadian author Rupi Kaur. Kaur is an amazing poet, artist, and performer who touches on trauma, feminism, migration, love, and loss in her works. Milk and Honey is a unique book of poetry as it combines written poetry with line art images. The collection is split into four chapters: “the hurting,” “the loving,” “the breaking,” and “the healing.” This research aims to show how the illustrations that appear alongside the poems have amplified the speaker’s voice in response to patriarchy and sexuality. This study …
Spellbound: A Collection Of Poems, Julie Alden Cullinane
Spellbound: A Collection Of Poems, Julie Alden Cullinane
The Graduate Review
This collection was written in the Fall 2021 semester of the Poetry Workshop given by Professor John Mulrooney. These 10 poems were a collection I worked on this semester and completed a cyclical personal cycle of work regarding the life of a student-mother-sister-daughter-employee.
Who Are You?, Luma Balaa
Who Are You?, Luma Balaa
Journal of International Women's Studies
On August 4, 2020, Lebanon witnessed a second Hiroshima-like explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate. It killed and injured thousands of people, destroying most of Beirut. Compounding Lebanon’s misery, the coronavirus has taken its toll, as in the rest of the world, with thousands of deaths. There are no more vacant hospital beds and not enough medical supplies. For the last two years, Lebanon has been experiencing economic and political instability. The country is badly in debt and the banks have gone bankrupt and confiscated people’s life savings. The Lebanese Lira is pegged to the dollar and two years …
Triumph & Turmoil: The Duality Of Sylvia Plath, Matthew Edgar
Triumph & Turmoil: The Duality Of Sylvia Plath, Matthew Edgar
Honors Program Theses and Projects
During this study, we will attempt to showcase how a 20th century misogynistic society created one of their own greatest adversaries in the form of Sylvia Plath.
Violet Is One Letter Off From Violent, Audrey E. Spina
Violet Is One Letter Off From Violent, Audrey E. Spina
Master’s Theses and Projects
The poems in this creative collection, Violet is one letter off from violent, aim to add to the critical conversation in contemporary poetry about violence, women’s anger, patriarchal oppression, and physical and sexual assault, specifically drawing on analyses from the poetry of Rachel McKibbens, Tarfia Faizullah, Emily Skaja, Erika L. Sánchez, Tracy K. Smith, Safiya Sinclair, and Paisley Rekdal. My myriad speakers, who take both first and third person points of narrative view, reclaim and reproduce their own stories in ways that are complex, vulnerable, and angry as a result of living under and through traumatic experiences in domestic and …
The Bridge, Volume 16, 2019, Bridgewater State University
The Bridge, Volume 16, 2019, Bridgewater State University
the bridge
Editor-in-Chief: Mialise Carney and Alex Everette
Design:
John Davey, Cover Artist
Seth Jefferson
Lindsey MacMurdo, Photography Editor
Hailey Mulvey
Editors:
Sydney Cabral
John Cahill
Jake Camara
Kellie Delaney
Erica Devonish
Gabriel Hazeldine
Katie McPherson
Ian Mello
Erin Ryan
Becca Todd
Hannah White
John Wilson
Faculty Advisor: Evan Dardano
Graduate Assistant: Jill Boger
Consultant: Cady Parker, Design
Famished: On Finishing Hunger By Roxane Gay, Amber Moore
Famished: On Finishing Hunger By Roxane Gay, Amber Moore
Journal of International Women's Studies
This poem was written in response to Roxane Gay’s extraordinary new memoir Hunger: A memoir of (my) body (2017), which explores her experience(s) with fatness and living with memories of sexual trauma. In reading this memoir, I was struck by Gay’s unflinching confrontation of the violence she endured and current lived experiences, but also, how she uses her vulnerability as a site for resistance. After reading this book in one sitting, I was moved to respond; as such, my offering is the following piece where I aim to capture some of my immediate ruminations after reading the final lines.
From Bikini Atoll, Jillian Boger
From Bikini Atoll, Jillian Boger
The Graduate Review
"At Bikini Atoll" is a 13-line poem that deals with the speaker's loss of a child.
Andromeda, Jillian Boger
Andromeda, Jillian Boger
The Graduate Review
"'Andromeda'" is a poem which discusses the relationship between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies in the context of a person spying on their next-door neighbor.
The Bridge, Volume 15, 2018, Bridgewater State University
The Bridge, Volume 15, 2018, Bridgewater State University
the bridge
Editor-in-Chief: Mialise Carney
Managing Editor: Alex Everette
Lead Designer: Cady Parker
Editors:
Sydney Cabral
Jake Camara
Christina Carter
Care DeSouza
Gabriel Hazeldine
Parker Jones
Karina Lagstrom
Alexandria Machado
Emily Melo-Coppinger
Katie McPherson
Joe Near
Harrison Ryan
Soraya Santos
Treina Santos
John Wilson
Faculty Advisor: Evan Dardano
Graduate Assistant: Jill Boger
Consultant: Cheryl Sirois, Design
Make America Wait Again, Kim Petrovic
Make America Wait Again, Kim Petrovic
Journal of International Women's Studies
As a means of redirecting my own personal grief that stemmed from Hillary Rodham Clinton's loss to Donald J. Trump in the most recent presidential election, I penned the following prose during the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 as Trump gave his victory speech. Like many Americans who voted in the 2016 Presidential Election, I support the right to vote for one's choice of presidential candidate; however, I am not alone in my concerns about the current presidential administration. Not only are Trump's attempts to silence the media and the right to freedom of speech cause for alarm, …
Poetry: Counting In Circles; All Would Be Still, Diane Dolphin
Poetry: Counting In Circles; All Would Be Still, Diane Dolphin
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Poetry: Resonance, Diane Dolphin
Poetry: "What Al Young Might Say To The Graduates", Joseph Lacroix
Poetry: "What Al Young Might Say To The Graduates", Joseph Lacroix
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Roundtable - Seamus Heaney: A Tribute, Ellen Scheible
Roundtable - Seamus Heaney: A Tribute, Ellen Scheible
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Inside Back Cover: Poetry By John Bonnani, John Bonanni
Inside Back Cover: Poetry By John Bonnani, John Bonanni
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Poems, Kimberly Zittel
Poems, Kimberly Zittel
Journal of International Women's Studies
Four poems by Kimberly Zittel:
- Symbiosis
- On Sane Restoring
- Perception
- Cathedral of the Pines
Poems, Melita Schaum
Poems, Melita Schaum
Journal of International Women's Studies
Four poems by Melita Schaum:
- Six White Horses
- Pilot of Ponycarts
- Orbits
- Lizzie
Poems, Ranjini Thaver
Poems, Ranjini Thaver
Journal of International Women's Studies
Five poems by Ranjini Thaver:
- Fish for Thought
- The Prodigal Poor
- Ode to My Sister
- Paper Dolls at Graduation
- Genesis
The two poems on poverty are intimately related to my emotional [first hand] and intellectual [second-hand] experiences with poverty. As a poor child growing up in apartheid South Africa, I agonized over the inability of affluent men and women of all races to understand the beauty and dignity of the poor despite our outer appearance. Now that I am educated and affluent I understand emotionally why this was so. At the intellectual level most well-meaning scholars and activists respond to …
Medusa, Andrea Nicki
Hurting, Burning, Pilar Greenwood
Hurting, Burning, Pilar Greenwood
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Race, Gender And Performance In Grace Nichols’S The Fat Black Woman’S Poems, Maite Escudero
Race, Gender And Performance In Grace Nichols’S The Fat Black Woman’S Poems, Maite Escudero
Journal of International Women's Studies
From the Article:
In a world of diverse cultures and societal beliefs, marginalized groups often share common experiences. Recurrent themes in the literature of black peoples include anti-imperialism, racism, sexism, exile, ‘cultural schizophrenia’, language, otherness and home to ancestors, just to name a few. Yet, there is no single black voice: black writing can come from everywhere in the world – America, Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Britain. As a result, an individual may become torn between conflicting expressions by others within the same cultural group. What is at issue here is the recognition of extraordinary variation of subjective positions …
Poems, Elizabeth Brownell Balestrieri
Poems, Elizabeth Brownell Balestrieri
Journal of International Women's Studies
Two poems by Elizabeth Brownell Balestrieri
- For My Sisters
- The Beating
Maternal Instinct, Tara Pearson
Maternal Instinct, Tara Pearson
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Poetry, Donna J. G. Lee
Poetry, Donna J. G. Lee
Journal of International Women's Studies
Two poems by Donna J. G. Lee:
- Afternoon in Paleó Fáliron
- Up the Mountain