Casa de Negro House of Black: Spiritual Cleansings in the Time of COVID
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Event Website
https://source2022.sched.com/
Start Date
18-5-2022
End Date
18-5-2022
Keywords
Poetry, Creative Writing, Performance, activism
Abstract
From rape in the fields, to racism in the workshop, from discrimination in the sex, to pollution in the lungs, from imperialism in the brain, to the body cut into borders—this performance will cleanse the anxieties developed from the physical and social illness that has peaked these past three years through traditional folk healing presented in the medium of poetry. Through the hybridity of oral and written forms implemented using caesura, couplets, and the rosary, these poems dissect today’s traumas and prophesize each cataclysm if left unchecked. From these poems rises an urgency for activism against imperialism and patriarchy, marking the revival of the Chicana spirit.
Recommended Citation
Maravilla, Karla, "Casa de Negro House of Black: Spiritual Cleansings in the Time of COVID" (2022). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 12.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2022/CAH/12
Department/Program
English Language and Literature
Additional Mentoring Department
English Professional and Creative Writing
Casa de Negro House of Black: Spiritual Cleansings in the Time of COVID
From rape in the fields, to racism in the workshop, from discrimination in the sex, to pollution in the lungs, from imperialism in the brain, to the body cut into borders—this performance will cleanse the anxieties developed from the physical and social illness that has peaked these past three years through traditional folk healing presented in the medium of poetry. Through the hybridity of oral and written forms implemented using caesura, couplets, and the rosary, these poems dissect today’s traumas and prophesize each cataclysm if left unchecked. From these poems rises an urgency for activism against imperialism and patriarchy, marking the revival of the Chicana spirit.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2022/CAH/12
Faculty Mentor(s)
Christopher Schedler, Xavier Cavazos