Volta: The Daughters and the Mothers in the Kingdom of the Sons
Date of Award
5-2024
Document Type
Thesis - Closed Access
Degree Name
MFA in Writing
First Advisor
Maire Howe
Abstract
After thirty years of a recurring nightmare, the poet turns toward it. Face-to-face with her fears, these poems seek to turn tormentors into mentors. This thesis explores how women have been turned into various animals by myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses, medical histories, violent ways of knowing, and even her own dreams. At the site of the wound, she's after a Volta, a sharp turning point. Listening in the deep thickets of psyche, these poems re-enter myths through the side door, heading for artwork, dreamwork, and the animal kingdom to help sense the primal plights and sacred survivals of daughters and mothers in the kingdom of patriarchy.
Recommended Citation
Deininger, Brittany, "Volta: The Daughters and the Mothers in the Kingdom of the Sons" (2024). Writing Theses. 447.
https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/writing_etd/447