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Memories Of Hope And Loss: “Kerhi Maa Ne Bhagat Singh Jameya”, Sheher Bano

Masters Theses

My Masters thesis focuses on socialist Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s memory in contemporary Pakistani Punjab. I use the analytical category of memory to argue that Bhagat Singh is invoked by various groups and individuals, specifically those who identify as leftists or Marxists, in contemporary Pakistan to serve a range of political purposes. My analysis particularly sheds light on how activists and writers use the figure of Bhagat Singh to highlight the erasure of regional and lingual identities in Pakistan. Their remembrances underline a perceived historical injustice; the imposition of a national identity based on Urdu language and Sunni Muslim-ness, …

In-Between Spaces: Atmospheres, Movement And New Narratives For The City, Paul Alexander Stoicheff

Masters Theses

We often think of architecture as distinct buildings, yet as we move through the city we continuously pass through a built environment that is a collage of buildings. These spaces between buildings are underestimated as influences on our experience of everyday life in the city. Considering architecture as linked existential experiences through spaces rather than confined to individual buildings is more in line with our experience of the city as a series of interconnected spaces and places. Rather than describing a single, static architecture through words, how can we express this linked experience of spaces dynamically through narratives? Can writing …

Mothertongue 2022 (Full Issue)

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The full mOthertongue issue

Mothertongue 2021 (Full Issue)

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The full mOthertongue 2021 issue.

Mothertongue 2020 (Full Issue)

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The full mOthertongue 2020 issue.

Mothertongue 2019 (Full Issue)

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The full mOthertongue 2019 issue.

Transit, Christopher Janke

Masters Theses

This written thesis, transit, accompanies an exhibition by the same name and serves to contextualize the exhibit. The written portion begins with an inquiry into the nature of the contextualization itself, questioning the nature of the relationship between the written thesis, the exhibit, and the University which explicitly requires and connects the two, especially the ways that the written word as granted authority through an institution of higher education might undermine the exhibit’s intent to provoke thought into other forms of knowledge and other avenues of legitimacy than those presented by this institution.

The thesis discusses the philosophic question sometimes …

Mothertongue 2018 (Full Issue)

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The full mOthertongue 2018 issue.

Last Night In Americaland, Tom Mccauley

MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection

Last Night in Americaland is a collection of poems of life, death, terror, refusal, confusion, America, music, geography, place, love, friendship, hope, and the past.

Snug Harbor, Sean Jeffrey Bates

MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection

Snug Harbor is a collection of poetry dealing with a collective working history and the personal working history of growing up in various restaurants around Upstate New York.

Orphan Eye, Megan Wilson

MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection

These are poems written by M. M. Wilson between the dates of August 2015 and March 2018. These poems were written in Belchertown, MA and Amherst, MA.

Moving Against Clothespins:The Poli(Poe)Tics Of Embodiment In The Poetry Of Miriam Alves And Audre Lorde, Flávia Santos De Araújo

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines literary representations of the black female body in selected poetry by U.S. African American writer Audre Lorde and Afro-Brazilian writer Miriam Alves, focusing on how their literary projects construct and defy notions of black womanhood and black female sexualities in dialogue with national narratives and contexts. Within an historical, intersectional and transnational theoretical framework, this study analyses how the racial, gender and sexual politics of representation are articulated and negotiated within and outside the political and literary movements in the U.S. and Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s. As a theoretical framework, this research elaborates and uses …

Untitled, Jordan Bekenstein

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short multilingual poem in Russian, translated into English

Crépuscule À La Gare D’Autocars / Dusk At The Bus Station, Mitchell Manning

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Multilingual poetry in French, with English translation

Pour Toi, Mon Amour / For You, My Love, Joseph Pelletier

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Multilingual poem inspired by the work "Pour toi, mon amour" by Jacques Prévert, in French and English

בת ישראל / Daughter Of Israel, Clara Marino

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Multilingual poem in Hebrew, with English translation

Comment Vivre En Accord Avec La Démocratie / How To Live In Harmony In Democracy, Aine Folan

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Multilingual poem in French, with English translation

ね、ね、木の葉! / Hey, Hey, Leaves!, Clara Marino

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Multilingual poem in Japanese, with English translation

גאָט האָט געזאָגט / God Said, Clara Marino

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Multilingual poem in Hebrew and Yiddish, with English translation

Consolatio Catulli / The Consolation For Catullus: Homage To Catullus 8, Ariel Robinson

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Multilingual poem in Latin, with English translation

Mothertongue 2017 (Full Issue)

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The full mOthertongue 2017 journal

Symptoms Of A Cosmic Fluke, Shane Dupuy

MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection

Symptoms of a Cosmic Fluke is a book of poems.

This Great Filter, John Sieracki

MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection

A collection of poetry.

Songs Of Ishq, Freedom And Rebellion: Selected Kafis Of Bulleh Shah In Translation, Zainab Sattar

Masters Theses

Abdullah Shah (1680-1757) was the birth name of the boy who would later become one of the most eminent Sufi poets of South Asia, and the master of Sufi lyrics in Punjabi—Bulleh Shah. Living during times of strife and major conflict between the Sikhs and the crumbling Mughal Empire, Bulleh Shah wrote poetry with an underlying humanist and tolerant philosophy that challenged the turmoil of his times. Blind to the bounds of religion and caste in an increasingly divided India, Bullah’s spiritual philosophy and his message of equality found voice in his kafis—a genre of poetry indigenous to the …

Hidden Beauty, Nikki Grossfeld

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Photography.

どれくらい？ / How Long?, Naomi Chiba

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Japanese poem.

At The Darkest Moment, To You, Seung Ah Rebecca Han

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Korean poem.

Fortunata Vix / Only So Fortunate, Brinna Michael

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Latin poem.

Las Llaves / The Keys, Jonatán Martín Gómez

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Spanish poem.

Qui Suis-Je? / Who Am I?, Professor Rhonda Tarr's Spring 2016 French 126 Class

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Collaborative French poem.