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Her Name is Albatross

Coral H. Nardandrea

出版	Bowling Green State University, 2017
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DpJltAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

For this thesis, I did not want to restrict it with any one theme; however, it can be assumed that the title is a nod to "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the original poem, Coleridge faces a devastating haunting after killing an albatross at sea. In my work, the albatross continues that metaphor--ghosts of identity, family, pain, place, and queerness all haunt this speaker, and she experiences those emotional hauntings through her very physical body. Each of the three sections nods to a different point in the speakers life, how she is navigating these hauntings. In the first section, the speaker gets herself into poor situations, flounders through her identity, trying to find something to grab onto. In the second, she is more clear on her identity through past and place, but has trouble admitting to the changes she must face. The last section, hopefully, is one of resolution, if reserved. While the speaker does not have her identity pinned down or completely resolved, she is more focused on meeting it head-on. In short, this work is meant to be a window to the intersectional, and how our self-image is skewed by those we are close to and those we are not