San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Master's Theses Master's Theses and Graduate Research Summer 2014 Between Patricia Valeria Pinedo San Jose State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses Recommended Citation Pinedo, Patricia Valeria, "Between" (2014). Master's Theses. 4478. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.8xze-bg2e https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses/4478 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Master's Theses and Graduate Research at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. BETWEEN A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature San José State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Fine Arts by Patricia Valeria Pinedo August 2014 © 2014 Patricia Valeria Pinedo ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Designated Thesis Committee Approves the Thesis Titled BETWEEN by Patricia Valeria Pinedo APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY August 2014 Professor Samuel Maio, Ph.D. Department of English and Comparative Literature Professor Alan Soldofsky, MFA Department of English and Comparative Literature Professor John Engell, Ph.D. Department of English and Comparative Literature ABSTRACT BETWEEN by Patricia Valeria Pinedo This thesis is a collection of poetry based on the farm worker Grape Boycott of 1965-1970. Through personal narrative and formal poetic techniques, the collection presents a migrant family struggling to understand where it belongs in choosing between joining the boycott or not.