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Date of Award

Spring 2025

Document Type

Masters Project (Campus-Only Access)

Department or Program Affiliation

English

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Warburton, Theresa

Second Advisor

Rivera, Lysa M.

Abstract

Abstract

Tereteye is a speculative lyric memoir that grapples with my personal Mexican diasporic identity in an internet-oriented world. The memoir engages the lyric mode to capture the concept of non-memory – aspects of experience that are not actively remembered but are accessed through embodied knowledge. Tereteye is invested in the project of the decolonial aesthesis which is meant to disobey/ disrupt the artistic and aesthetic standards of dominant US culture. For Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente this disruption is meant to “mobilize a critique of Western modernity and its colonial specter... it concerns aesthesis: the transformation of our sensibility and structures of feeling." My experimenting with the lyric mode seeks to honor traditional oral storytelling on the page as a form of political action. An underlying question throughout the project was: What does it mean to embody the identity of ancestor and how does that help me act in alignment with the struggle of liberation? The project came from my own reflection on what it means to have had the explicit demarcation of U.S./ Mexico border for over a century now and what historical parallels I see happening in the current political backdrop of mass deportation and the legitimacy of birthright citizenship currently being debated in the Supreme Court.

Type

Text

Keywords

border poetics decolonial aesthesis lyric memoir

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

1523888185

Subject – LCSH

Mexican Americans--Biography; Decolonization; Aesthetes

Geographic Coverage

Mexican-American Border Region

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

Language

English

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

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