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Item Restricted Angels sing the blues(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2013) Gonzales, Sonia, author; Morales, Juan, advisor; Checho, Colleen, committee member; Arnegard, Iver, committee memberAngels Sing the Blues explores the layers of individual identity. The manuscript is meant to mimic the ebb and flow of an individual's emotions as they question what they believe and demonstrate through their actions. Using queer theory and Gloria AnzaldĂșa's Borderlands as a theoretical base, the manuscript explores identity issues related to gender roles, cultural and heritage, as well as faith and religion. The poet's identity is a product of madness and obsession; one which is blissful and difficult. In Angels Sing the Blues, the poet works to find harmony among what instinct tells her to do and what tradition begs her to consider.Item Open Access Motherhood, performance, and mommy blogs: the political power of maternal online rhetoric(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) DiPrince, Dawn, author; Souder, Donna, advisor; Eskew, Doug, committee member; Arnegard, Iver, committee member"If you define writing as any kind of scribble, any kind of trying to mark on the world," Gloria AnzaldĂșa says in an interview with Andrea Lundsford, "And, some of us want to take those marks that are already inscribed in the world and redo them." Language - and thus, writing - has the power to transform, to redefine reality. Autobiographical writing is a performative act that forms - not reflects - identity. Mommy blogs are autobiographical acts with dual performativity: identity and maternity. With performativity, mommy blogs have the power to, as AnzaldĂșa writes, "rewrite culture." Yet, collectively, mommy blogs reify the normative motherhood narrative with gritty and sometimes profane clicktivist delusions, rather than actively work against the systemic issues that limit the lives of mothers: lack of quality child care; breastfeeding discrimination; unpaid maternity leave; wage disparity for women, working mothers and women of color. Mommy blogs emphasize a narrative of voluntary stay-at-home motherhood (SAHM). The SAHM narrative is essential to capitalism, which only thrives when a certain percentage of adults are removed from the workforce. Mommy blogs use narrative to keep women content while they are being forced out of the workforce through lower wages and lack of child care choices.Item Restricted Steel City Angels: process leads creation(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Woelfel, Margaret Johanna, author; Morales, Juan J., advisor; Taylor, Ted, committee member; Arnegard, Iver, committee memberSteel City Angels is a novel in stories that follows several flawed characters through interwoven tales centered in and around Pueblo, Colorado. The manuscript is divided into three sections: Summer, Fall/Winter and Spring to highlight not only the chronological order of the stories, but also to emphasize the unique position Pueblo occupies in regard to extreme weather as it exists in Southern Colorado's "Banana Belt". The text is written in traditional prose style, although in addition to three major story arcs across several of the stories, there are also two instances of flash fiction within the volume. Underpinned by a theoretical nod to process and post-process theory, the work contained in this manuscript was modeled after process theory hallmarks emphasizing recursive writing with an eye toward post-process considerations of economic, social, geographic, cultural and other concerns as they affect the communities within Pueblo and its surrounding environment. Other novel themes include a focus on the human condition with particular emphasis on individual isolation within and without the community, the desire to build personal identity, hope, longing - particularly for human connection - and the sometimes absurd results of efforts to bond with others are explored throughout the manuscript in an attempt to illuminate the commonalities individuals share.