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Dissertation
“PLAN/K” (poems) and \From No Body to Some Bodies: A Reading of Footnotes and Endnotes as Form in Jennifer Martenson's “Xq28” and Jenny Boully's “The Body” and “one love affair”
2010
Overview
Poems in this manuscript were borne out of a curiosity about—and further research into—pirates and piracy. The title, PLAN/K, is a nod to the primarily fictionalized practice of walking the plank and a play on Plan B. Plan B, of course, signifies alternative plans in general, but it is also the name for the emergency contraceptive pill. If Plan B manages accidents, then Plan K cultivates accidents through writing strategies that privilege mishearing and misreading. Furthering the spirit of piracy, and pilfering particularly, the poems incorporate anagrams and puns, figures of speech often considered base or crude, but which can also be considered as devices that disrupt and reroute language while allowing the uncanny in language to surface. The essay explores footnotes and endnotes as forms in three contemporary books of poetry written by women. Martenson’s Xq28 and Boully’s first book, The Body, radically foreground the footnote by making it the sole textual component on the page. Through her use of footnotes, the essay argues that Martenson highlights an erased body in order to critique lesbian erasure and uses the margins to frame a subversive anti-hegemonic speaking position. In contrast, the essay argues Boully invests in psychological reactions to a missing body by staging repression and the return of the repressed through alternately subsuming and subsiding footnotes and the covering over (more or less successfully) of the missing body of a dead lover who is figured in the blank textual body. Whereas The Body and its form are motivated by the tenets of melancholia, in her second book, [one love affair]*, the essay argues Boully stages processes of mourning. Following Jeffrey Adams, the essay considers intertextuality in terms of “aesthetic object-relating.” The essay argues that palimpsest and endnotes perform a reactivation of object-relating and help the speaker of the poems reinvest in relationships with other subjects rather than withdraw from such investments because of an inability to grieve the lost object.
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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ISBN
1124358072, 9781124358079
