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University of South Carolina

Arts and Humanities, Creative Writing, Nonfiction

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Outlandish: A Human History Of Violence In The Galapágos A Historical Non-Fiction Novel, Jonathan Timmons Jan 2017

Outlandish: A Human History Of Violence In The Galapágos A Historical Non-Fiction Novel, Jonathan Timmons

Theses and Dissertations

This historical non-fiction novel aims to relate the events concerning the settlement of Floreana Island in the Galápagos Archipelago in the early 1930's by European ex-pats. The events related are entirely based in fact, informed by the accounts of a variety of different sources with personal knowledge to the events. The style of the piece is influenced by the storytelling techniques of the fiction novel, with the narrative being primarily presented in the limited third person perspective of Dore Strauch, the protagonist of the story. The objective of Outlandish is to communicate a factual account of the human violence (carried …


Ashley's Sister, Christina Phillips Jan 2016

Ashley's Sister, Christina Phillips

Theses and Dissertations

This nonfiction project is a memoir, constructed in sections, about my relationship with my sister with an intellectual disability.