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This, My Breath, Suzette Louise Mack

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This, My Breath, is a creative collection of memories gathered along the seasons in my life-mostly from my formative years. The stories highlight the patient, unconditional love my parents shared, and the way it has influenced me throughout my life. The stories are about life, love, loss, a yearning to belong, and a longing to be both interdependent and independent.

In my family of origin, it was the simple rhythms established through daily life and the honoring of traditions that inspired the deepest meaning, purpose, and hope. The seasons of the year brought my family alive with a flow of …

Cicada's Song: A Memoir, Luz Hernandez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Cicada's Song is a true account of my coming-of-age as a first-generation Colombian-American girl growing up as the only child of two loving parents-one of whom abused me sexually for eleven years, while the other stood by without intervening. Yet the story is not one of resentment, blame, or self-pity. Rather, it is one of identity, self-reliance, survival, forgiveness, and love. Through a series of memories, essays, statements, and poems, the memoir invites the reader on a voyage through my childhood and youth, with stops in my both present-day and recent past, in the hopes that he will see the …

Traducción, El Cuerpo Y La Sombra. Jane: A Murder De Maggie Nelson, Sylvia F. Aguilar Zéleny

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Maggie Nelson publicó Jane: A Murder en 2005 y en él se reconstruye la historia en torno a Jane Mixer. Jane fue la tercera de siete ví­ctimas de un asesino en serie a finales de los años 60. Jane, además, era tí­a materna de la autora. Este libro investiga la figura de Jane sin Jane. Maggie Nelson lo escribió preguntándose ¿puede una colección de pequeños poemas lí­ricos contar la historia de un terrible asesinato? Mi premisa es: quiero traducir esta serie de pequeños poemas lí­ricos bajo la declaración de que un caso como el de Jane Mixer continúa ocurriendo en …

Adios, Cuba, Zita Arocha

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Memoir about a family's immigration from Cuba to the United States in the late 1950's, and how exile from native country is like the Buddhist state of bardo, an in-between condition and transition between life and death.