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Strike-Slip, Amanda Mitchell
Strike-Slip, Amanda Mitchell
Theses and Dissertations
strike-slip is a work of poetry in which a female speaker seeks answers for a violent past she is just beginning to unravel. By revisiting and reconsidering scenes from girlhood, including the broken objects and split bodies she encountered in the Appalachian wilderness she grew up in and around, she attempts to gain insight into a present state of selfhood that continues to elude her. The poems here come together to conduct an excavation—each memory is an old bone from which the speaker must carefully brush the dust away until she can figure out something about the larger thing it …
The Cutman, Christopher S. Koslowski
The Cutman, Christopher S. Koslowski
Theses and Dissertations
In this novel, professional wrestler Domingo Contreras coaches his sister, Pilar, on the eve of her tryout with Mid-Coast Championship Wrestling, a small federation based in Charlotte, North Carolina. While facing dilemmas concerning his identity inside and outside the ring, Domingo comes to realize that the business which is gradually destroying him will consume his sister at an even more terrifying rate.
Dirt, Rebecca Landau
Dirt, Rebecca Landau
Theses and Dissertations
Dirt weaves together different narratives concerned with the disruption of rules governing the physical body: a new set of creation myths. This collection gives voice to a spectrum of bodily experiences and processes of transformation, evoking questions of conformity, confrontation, and self-determination. By centering stories around differing body politics and the cultural narratives inscribed upon our bodies with and without our consent, Dirt invests both content and form in important questions of self-creation and voice. Yet by defamiliarizing the bodily experience and refusing to provide or articulate answers, Dirt exposes the unstable nature of this bodily, synesthetic experience and our …
Ashley's Sister, Christina Phillips
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.
Still Bridges, Anna Barry
Still Bridges, Anna Barry
Theses and Dissertations
This memoir-in-essays tells the story of four generations of a family living in one place, Pittsburgh, as they navigate the rise, peak, collapse, and disappearance of the steel industry. In terms of the manuscript’s “situation,” the family must navigate the complex economic, ethnic, environmental, and social struggles that are inherit when living in a place for over one hundred years. The manuscript argues that family and place are so intimately connected that the two entities cannot be separated. Pittsburgh becomes part of the narrator’s family, a kind of gene that is embedded in all of its residents, and the family …
Orange Juice Elegies, Jared Coffin
Orange Juice Elegies, Jared Coffin
Theses and Dissertations
This is a creative thesis presented as a collection of poems written by Jared Coffin. This is the complete thesis submitted, defended, and approved as part of Jared’s completion of the requirements for earning the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
Heidelberg, Justin Brouckaert
Heidelberg, Justin Brouckaert
Theses and Dissertations
Two long-distance runners train for the Olympic Marathon Trials in Detroit in the wake of the 2013/2014 Heidelberg Project arsons.
In The Wake Of The End Of The World: Stories, Cayla M. Fralick
In The Wake Of The End Of The World: Stories, Cayla M. Fralick
Theses and Dissertations
This collection of short stories came about from my growth as a passionate but imperfect feminist, reflecting on the place I call home—how the South and its politics shape us and how I learned to shape myself.