Graduation Date
Summer 2023
Document Type
Thesis
Program
Master of Arts degree with a major in English, emphasis in Literary & Cultural Studies
Committee Chair Name
Christina Hsu Accomando
Committee Chair Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Second Committee Member Name
Nancy Perez
Second Committee Member Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Subject Categories
English
Abstract
My thesis project is a multi-genre story in itself, dedicated to my community. By using Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel’s Decolonize Your Diet, I emphasize the importance of Xicanx writing needing to reflect their Indigenous identity by intertwining the spiritual and physical in their writing practices. In the process of creating this thesis project I was able to heal my own writing and have it shapeshift into creating a summer poetry class for high school students in the Humboldt County Area. In all, I found these writing practices to be crucial for the evolution of literature and more importantly to help Queer Xicanx writers, students, and communities feel empowered and reconnect with their culture.
Citation Style
MLA
Recommended Citation
Zurita, Karen, "Muele las palabras con canela: how queer Xicanx writing practices reclaim indigeneity" (2023). Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects. 668.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/668
Included in
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