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Limited By Body Habitus: An American Fat Story, Jennifer Renee Blevins
Limited By Body Habitus: An American Fat Story, Jennifer Renee Blevins
Theses and Dissertations
On March 24, 2010, my father walked into a hospital in North Carolina for an elective gastric bypass procedure; by Easter Sunday, it had become uncertain whether he would ever walk back out. Part memoir, part cultural analysis, Limited By Body Habitus: An American Fat Story traces the catastrophic consequences of my father’s botched gastric bypass surgery and examines the pervasive fat prejudice in the United States. As I tell the story of caring for my critically ill father while trying to navigate my complicated relationship with my mother, I wrestle with my own history of fat hatred. Additionally, I …
Well Enough Alone: Stories, Sarah Jane Huskey
Well Enough Alone: Stories, Sarah Jane Huskey
Theses and Dissertations
This collection of short stories aims to capture the difficulties of telling anything at all, let alone the truth, the whole story, or the abstract reality. Though its thematic concerns might seem a bit cheerless at first blush, Well Enough Alone aims to treat them as prominent features of day-to-day life rather than gloomy afflictions or the loci of trauma.
Elsewhere, Then, Tracie Renée Dawson
Elsewhere, Then, Tracie Renée Dawson
Theses and Dissertations
Elsewhere, Then is a cross-generational road novel that traces the sociopolitical and personal narrative of a family through a musician making her way from Savannah to San Francisco. Traditional road narratives have long depicted the lone female traveller as being subject to violence when stepping outside the domestic sphere, which echoes history's larger and pervasive trend of denying women agency through silence and subjugation—in life, as in stories. The novel interrogates how (and by whom) narratives are created, embellished, changed, and/or discarded through the narrator's temporal and spatial journey. A guiding force behind the novel is William H. Whyte's idea …
How To Make A Mudsparkler, Ethan Fogus
How To Make A Mudsparkler, Ethan Fogus
Theses and Dissertations
How to Make a Mudsparkler is a collection of lyrical narratives that address issues of masculinity and identity. These poems are threaded through with repeated themes— religion, place, and the nature of work—as they interrogate familial lineage with inventories of memory. The first section ruminates on family history as it is linked to formative memories. Section two continues these themes, but adds an exploration of adolescence and isolation. Finally, section three is the most immediate section as the speaker explores the fundamental questions of love, loss, and the nature of friendship.
Quarantine, Scott Chalupa
Quarantine, Scott Chalupa
Theses and Dissertations
Quarantine is a collection of poems concerned primarily with pre-Stonewall and early AIDS histories of LGBT people.
In The Way Back, Mark Rodehorst
In The Way Back, Mark Rodehorst
Theses and Dissertations
This is a collection of poems that explores the intersection of place, memory, culture, and identity.
Meigallo, Julia Velasco Espejo
Meigallo, Julia Velasco Espejo
Theses and Dissertations
This work explores the figure of the witch as seen in traditional Galician folklore and in relation to female empowerment and traditional representations of women. It follows two women throughout two distinct timelines (1940s and 1980s) in the region of Galicia, northwest of Spain. The narrative also examines the relationship between social and institutional power, as well as the ways in which folklore can shed light on timeless topics such as gender relations and a community’s interactions with the supernatural.
Stories: From Foreign To Fluent!, Kurt Hoberg
Stories: From Foreign To Fluent!, Kurt Hoberg
Theses and Dissertations
These nine stories depict characters in migration and the consequences of that migration.