Song, 1859, 2021
Scope and Content Note
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.
The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and changed to digital submissions in 2020. There are also a handful of audiocassette tapes and one USB. The media components are stored onsite at the Archives.
Dates
- 2021
Creator
- Olayiwola, Porsha (Person)
Conditions Governing Use
The thesis is restricted due to FERPA, permission from the author is required before you can view the thesis.
Extent
61 pages (61 pages)
Language of Materials
From the record group: English
From the record group: Chinese
From the record group: Spanish; Castilian
Overview
"Porsha Olayiwola's 'Song, 1859' is a collection of poems that explore the Black American diaspora, water, and queer womyn intimacy. The poems in this collection meet both at and beyond those intersections. Rich in historical analysis, the work reaches for poetic permanence in highlighting untold or unremembered narratives. Entangled in the wake of the middle passage, these poems seek to do with form, what water does in general: remember, reshape, rename, repair and reconfigure. The collection culminates in the title poem, a historically fictionalized ballad of two women who meet to survive the middle passage to this country on the Cotilda. The collection is an exercise in what the writer, Toni Morrison, claims as rememory, the act of re-remembering the ghosts once forgotten." -- Abstract
Physical Location
RG 010.01B Writing, Literature & Publishing
Physical Description
61 pages
Repository Details
Part of the Emerson College Archives and Special Collections Repository
Walker Building, Room 223
120 Boylston Street
Boston Massachusetts 02116 United States
(617) 824-8301
archives@emerson.edu