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This World Hasn’T Killed Us Yet, Marcus Jamison
This World Hasn’T Killed Us Yet, Marcus Jamison
Theses and Dissertations
This World Has Not Killed Us Yet is a collection of poems that engage with notions of imminent/inherent death as faced by the former slaves and their descendants within the United States, particularly in the U.S. South. These poems build from utilizing concepts of Judeo-Christian creation mythology to craft an alternate mythology for those who populate the poems. The collection also gives credence to the impact of gospel, blues, and jazz music on the temperament and adaptability of African Americans, as well as the role of community in fashioning a life worth living in the face of accelerated death. Together, …
Wonderland Station, Melanie Elizabeth Walker
Wonderland Station, Melanie Elizabeth Walker
Theses and Dissertations
Wonderland Station is a love story about an affair between a Salvadoran line-cook and a white waitress who has lost custody of her daughter because of heroin addiction. It is a story about a love of necessity, about two people who love to forget their trauma, to imagine a new life in which they are seen and respected. Reality quickly finds them however, as they have no place to be together; Stephanie lives in a halfway house and Mauricio is in an unhappy marriage. Their romance takes them through a very different Boston than is often written about; they fall …
Balance Check, Anne Louise Hilenski
Balance Check, Anne Louise Hilenski
Theses and Dissertations
This novel-length work of fiction seeks to explore the world of women’s elite gymnastics and the way it invites glory as much as it invites sacrifice, mental fortitude, physical pain, and suffering. When gymnast Rachel Wallerstein secures four gold medals at the World Championships a year before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, her destiny as an American Olympic hero is preemptively written into the history books. What happens in the gym stays in the gym, but not for long, as the ever-present approach of the Olympics casts light on the cracks in her parents’ seemingly perfect marriage. On the …
There Fly The Crows, Daniel R. Adler
There Fly The Crows, Daniel R. Adler
Theses and Dissertations
Where there is a corpse, there fly the crows. —Netherlandish Proverb
Cult Of The Day Moon, Markham Sigler
Cult Of The Day Moon, Markham Sigler
Theses and Dissertations
This book is a collection of short stories and miniatures. A variety of themes and styles are employed. Themes include environmentalism, the family, late capitalism, and alienation. Styles include surrealism, neorealism, hysterical fiction, and science fiction, as well as speculative fiction.