Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Date of Award
5-2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Creative Writing
First Advisor
Emmy Perez
Second Advisor
Dr. Steven Schneider
Third Advisor
Dr. Marci McMahon
Abstract
This poetry collection is by a Mexican American spoken word, performance poet, Lady Mariposa, from Sullivan City turned Chican@ feminist after coming to terms with her mestizaje through Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza. In Lady Mariposa’s journey as an “Academic Chola,” the term “chola” articulates her Chican@ identity and creates a new space in academia by using “chola” as a hybrid of identity and style in the formation of her poetics. Her poetry can also be called pocho, pocha, Tex-Mex and code switches. She is inspired by Chican@ literature and history, lowriders, cholo culture, cholas, jazz, hip hop, Tejano music, The Beats, pop culture, feminisms, family, love, barrio culture, and includes poetry forms such as the haiku and pantoum, and sub genres such as ecphrastic poetry
Granting Institution
University of Texas-Pan American
Comments
Copyright 2011 Veronica Sandoval. All Rights Reserved.
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