Date of Award
2024-01-01
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Creative Writing
Advisor(s)
Sasha Pimentel
Abstract
Conjuring The Moon wrestles with the question of why we as women still submit to norms created by men who can't possibly understand our reality. Why should we support ideologies that claim to represent us while actively working against us? Why should we conform to a system that positions us as inessential Other? The speaker of this book aspires to liberate herself from such burdens. Conjuring the Moon encapsulates one woman's search for the feminine divine within herself, her religion, and her environment; but as empowering as this search may be, it remains inextricably connected to her social and historical role as inessential Other. Narrated primarily from a first-person point-of-view, a consistent, evolving I, inspired by myself, the poems in this book present a woman longing for feminine divinity in a world that reduces her status to inessential Other.
Language
en
Provenance
Recieved from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2024-01
File Size
92 p.
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Ariella Berkowitz
Recommended Citation
Berkowitz, Ariella, "Conjuring the Moon" (2024). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 4039.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/4039