“I descend into mictlán”: (re)imagining threads of connection between the erotic, darkness, and the shadow-beast in the writing of Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Joy Harjo

Graduation Date

2015

Document Type

Project

Program

Other

Program

Project (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, English: Literary and Cultural Studies, 2015

Committee Chair Name

Christina Accomando

Committee Chair Affiliation

HSU Faculty or Staff

Keywords

Humboldt State University -- Projects -- English

Abstract

This project aims to (re)imagine the threads of connection between the erotic, darkness, and the Shadow-Beast in the writing of Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Joy Harjo. I focus on the construction of the erotic and consider how darkness and the Shadow-Beast can inform an understanding of the erotic. A (re)imagination allows me to see and understand how the Shadow-Beast as a representation of the erotic and the erotic's creative potential reveals itself in poetry and how that revelation can (re)imagine what it means for women across various differences, myself included, to become in touch with our own Shadow-Beast.

https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/s7526f896

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