Things Fit Inside Other Things

Things Fit Inside Other Things began in the preserves aisle of a grocery store in Iowa. It grew from a very long list of instances of physical containment (pickles in jars, berries in cartons, almonds in bins) into a cross-genre, modestly multimedia project that includes auto theory, prose poetry, and theoretical fiction. It remains a list. In conversation with writers such as Anne Carson, Eula Biss, Juana María Rodríguez, Ann Cvetkovich, Maggie Nelson, Dawn Lundy Martin, Sheila Heti, Jenny Offill, Chris Kraus, Claudia Rankine, and Leslie Jamison, this project retains interest in physical containment, but more often obsesses over the mechanism of fitting as a tool to elucidate the possibilities of language, theft, empathy, recognition, paranoia, uncanniness, plumbing and electricity, sex, pain, tenderness, debt, guilt, touch and untouchability, queerness, clothing, white privilege, gifts, geometry, and empathy.

    Item Description
    Name(s)
    Author: Davis, Jenny
    Thesis advisor: Vogel, Danielle
    Date
    April 15, 2017
    Extent
    96 pages
    Language
    eng
    Genre
    Physical Form
    electronic
    Discipline
    Rights and Use
    In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
    Restrictions on Use

    Access restricted indefinitely. Please contact wesscholar@wesleyan.edu for more information.

    Digital Collection
    PID
    ir:1990