Breaking the eggs: An Instapoetry cookbook

Date of Publication

2024

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature major in Creative Writing

Subject Categories

Creative Writing

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature, Department of

Thesis Advisor

Mark Adrian C. Ho

Defense Panel Chair

Mesandel Virtusio Arguelles

Defense Panel Member

Mariane Amor Romina T. Abuan

Abstract (English)

Breaking The Eggs is an Instapoetry collection highlighting infertile women's emotional distress and desperation (“the hunger”). Desire, the appetite to be satiated, is not just a biological need of the human body. Still, it is also a powerful metaphor that aids in understanding female hunger in connection to their bodies.

This poetry collection appropriates the visual language of a “Cookbook” filled with “recipes” (poems) that tackle the different causes and effects of infertility among women and the accurate “procedures” (experiences) that they had to go through during their infertility journey. Recipes in cookbooks reference women's hunger and their ‘domestic’ identity. The desire to bear a child, to raise, and parent one—a woman who decides to be a mother of their own free will and suddenly has that taken away from them—would this mean freedom for womanhood or oppression from motherhood?

This creative thesis also attempts to strengthen the credibility of Instapoetry in democratizing the literary landscape. How does it become a medium for social and cultural agendas in the face of the digital age? This thesis aims to contribute to the discourse on infertility, feminist and modern literature.

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Language

English

Format

Electronic

Keywords

Poetry—Collections

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