University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations May 2018 The aD ughter Industry Soham Patel University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd Recommended Citation Patel, Soham, "The aD ughter Industry" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 1893. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1893 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE DAUGHTER INDUSTRY by Soham Patel A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee May 2018 ABSTRACT THE DAUGHTER INDUSTRY By Soham Patel The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2018 Under the Supervision of Professor Mauricio Kilwein Guevara THE DAUGHTER INDUSTRY is a long creative work about reproduction. It works to demystify, narrate, and paradoxically to mythologize son-preference as it leads to the practice of sex-selection. The creative project examines transnational values and texts informing the practice and documents some consequences of the practice. This dissertation lifts language and images from medical textbooks, web pages, and various other sources. It also attempts to translate, rewrite, and treat found text. The poetics of THE DAUGHTER INDUSTRY manifests in a prismatic approach to its topic. It mixes engagements with collage, documentation, performance, (his)storytelling, prose, poem, prose poem, lyric, lyric address, and the lyric essay. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Critical Introduction ..............................................................................................................