Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
2021
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Abstract
EVERYTHING WE NAME IS PRECIOUS is a collage of poetry exploring the challenges of reshaping a disembodied being into a new whole after trauma. The collection critiques a phallocentric America entrenched in toxic masculinity and violent gun culture, calling for individual and cultural healing. Drawing inspiration from Hélène Cixous, Maggie Nelson and the Book of Genesis, the manuscript’s speakers seek agency and restoration by exploring what it means to write through the body and reimagine the feminine.
Subject Categories
Creative Writing
Keywords
collage, embodiment, gender, motherhood, religion, trauma
Number of Pages
78
Publisher
University of South Dakota
Recommended Citation
Campbell, Chelsea, "Everything We Name is Precious" (2021). Dissertations and Theses. 318.
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis/318
