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The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking Multifarious Prose Performance, Alex Avila
The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking Multifarious Prose Performance, Alex Avila
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions …
A Meditation On I, We, And Consciousness In "Only We Can Pull", Allyson Elizabeth Jeffredo
A Meditation On I, We, And Consciousness In "Only We Can Pull", Allyson Elizabeth Jeffredo
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
In a society focused on the individual, how is community formed? As individuals predisposed to the built-in barrier of our body, our skin, how do we mediate between the self and the external? During this mediation on the barriers between our body, ourselves, and the outside world, how is consciousness simultaneously conflicted and built upon? What does it mean to be alive, to be a complex individual surrounded by a multitude of complex individuals? Can we, as a society, learn to focus balance the community and the individual? ONLY WE CAN PULL attempts to answer these questions through a series …