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'This is where the poetry comes out': Examining the Peterborough Poetry Slam as resistant space-making

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Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Baldwin, Melissa, Thesis advisor (ths): Chazan, May, Degree committee member (dgc): Chivers, Sally, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Since 1984, poetry slams have emerged as a politicized expressive movement of performing the personal and political through poetry competitions. Slams are also discursively spatialized, often represented as "spaces" that are "safe," "inclusive," etc. In this thesis, I investigate how, why, and to what effect the Peterborough Poetry Slam produces,… more