Date of Award
5-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Committee Chair/Advisor
Dr. Su Cho
Committee Member
Professor Desiree Bailey
Committee Member
Dr. Clare Mullaney
Abstract
Deviance in Southern women’s poetry can be characterized by uncertainty, religious images, and through the telling of stories often unheard of, forgotten, or erased, like racial and gendered violence. Glenis Redmond’s poetry in The Listening Skin and What My Hand Say both explore Southern womanhood alongside race, history, violence, illness, and legacy, among other themes and topics. In Caroline: Poems some deviances include religious metaphors alongside obsessive compulsive disorder, excessive cursing from a woman speaker, and historical graveyard musings. Critical texts about lyric theory and voice provide some background and historical significance to be used in this contemporary study and practice of what the voice of deviance looks like in Southern women’s poetry.
Recommended Citation
Short, Sage Aspyn, "“Caroline”: Deviance in Southern Women’s Poetry" (2024). All Theses. 4302.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/4302
Included in
American Studies Commons, Poetry Commons, Women's Studies Commons