Parents -- Death
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Daddy's Little Girl, 2024
Item
Identifier: cw_2024spring_leger_nico.pdf
Overview
"Daddy's Little Girl is a collection of poems that moves through the speaker's grief—for their father, for the time before the speaker's own conception, and for the premature end of childhood. Grappling with identity as a pre-determined condition, these poems center cultural scripts and ideologies, assigned gender, socioeconomic status, and familial legacy, reaching beyond the fixed nature of the speaker's geographic locality and toward the immobility of girlhood in a fatherless, patriarchal...
Dates:
2024
The Angie Archive, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_maske_claire.pdf
Overview
""The Angie Archive" is a personal experimental documentary short film. Told through a combination of narration, home videos, 16mm footage, hand-drawn animation, and family photos, it tells the story of Claire Maske's search to find every single photograph in existence of her mother, who died ten years ago. It explores the relationship between photography and grief, the construction of fantasy and identity through family photo albums, and the failures of archives." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024