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Tandem Travel: Reconsidering Road Narratives And Tactics For Subversive Travel, Nicole Emanuel
Tandem Travel: Reconsidering Road Narratives And Tactics For Subversive Travel, Nicole Emanuel
The Goose
Roads are frequently conceptualized as shared spaces that symbolize freedom, despite the fact that they are also tightly monitored sites where laws and public policy hold sway. The fundamental tension between movement on the one hand and restrictive regulation on the other makes the road a particularly paradoxical expression of “the commons.” Another contradictory aspect of roads is that they are often understood as atopic—places that are not really places, but merely a means of conquering time and space to connect a point of origin to a destination. What does it mean to live one’s daily life in such a …
The Politics & Poetics Of Audience Creation In Contemporary Epistolary Memoir, Sarah M. Davis
The Politics & Poetics Of Audience Creation In Contemporary Epistolary Memoir, Sarah M. Davis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy as works of life writing that leverage the epistolary form to engage their direct maternal addressees and audiences beyond them in revision and reconstruction of identity. Secondary audiences are considered in light of Michael Warner’s “Publics and Counterpublics,” and the social affordances of the epistolary form and self-constructive affordances of life writing are analyzed in tandem as a hybrid epistolary memoir form. Specifically, this project explores how the epistolary memoir form affords Vuong and Laymon opportunities for the process of personal, relational, and communal identity construction, …
#Metoo: The Literary And Social Impact Of Sexual Violence Narratives, Aura Comer
#Metoo: The Literary And Social Impact Of Sexual Violence Narratives, Aura Comer
English Undergraduate Honors Theses
To fully understand the severity of sexual violence and its pervasiveness in America, I will present statistics of rape and sexual assault, as well as available legal court statistics of justice and punishment for offenders (or a lack thereof). However, there must be an acknowledgment of the disparity in information and representation pertaining to indigenous, LGBT+, immigrant, and minor communities. Note that these statistics do not speak to the complete pervasiveness of rape and sexual assault in the United States, given the negligent protection and lack of belief in victims, which results in victim silencing and a lack of reporting.
The Act Of Seeing And Being Seen: Visual Explorations Of Queerness And Memory In Alison Bechdel’S Fun Home, Vanessa Lopez
The Act Of Seeing And Being Seen: Visual Explorations Of Queerness And Memory In Alison Bechdel’S Fun Home, Vanessa Lopez
Theses and Dissertations
In the autobiographical illustrated novel Fun Home, Alison Bechdel uses various art styles and comic techniques to examine her father’s life as a closeted gay man and his tragic suicide, as well as her own childhood and experience with homosexuality. This thesis explores how Bechdel uses the medium of the graphic novel to showcase different visual perspectives and ways of bearing witness to the past, memory, trauma, and interpersonal relationships, showing how they converge to create the story of how one generation’s model of queer identity can impact and shape the next. Bechdel presents multiple points-of-view in her exploration …
Hannah & Nana: A Personal Memoir On Appalachian Intergenerational Trauma, Womanhood, & Family, Hannah Dunn
Hannah & Nana: A Personal Memoir On Appalachian Intergenerational Trauma, Womanhood, & Family, Hannah Dunn
Honors Projects
I was deeply affected by the death of my beloved nana in 2018. After her death, my family asked me to be the storyteller for us. Thus, for my Honors Project at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), I decided to write a personal memoir on my family. This memoir explores how we fit into notions of womanhood and family in Appalachia, as well as studying the effects of intergenerational trauma on us. Qualitative research, in the form of the autoethnography, serves as the methodology for this project. In writing a creative memoir, I have transformed my personal to the academic.
Autobiographical Narratives Of Sexual Violation: Trauma, Genre, And The Politics Of Telling, Sarah M. Hildebrand
Autobiographical Narratives Of Sexual Violation: Trauma, Genre, And The Politics Of Telling, Sarah M. Hildebrand
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation engages with literary trauma theory and rape studies by investigating how scholars through the 1990s theorized the relationship among trauma, narration, and silence, and how the #MeToo movement causes us to rethink these views. Attending to the specific silence generated in the wake of sexual violation reveals how power structures influence the act of telling, challenging the idea that trauma is untellable. I argue that literary trauma theory needs to push beyond its foundation in biomedical models of trauma—in which the (in)ability to recall or articulate traumatic events is rooted in neurology—to examine the ways traumatic narratives are …
Ms – 244: Papers Of George S. Patton Jr., Jujuan K. Johnson
Ms – 244: Papers Of George S. Patton Jr., Jujuan K. Johnson
All Finding Aids
This collection is contained in two series, the first being George S. Patton Jr.’s letters to his Aunt “Nannie” and his mother from both VMI and West Point (1903-1908). The second being George S. Patton Jr.’s book “My Father as I remembered him.”, which contains a biography of his father, George S. Patton, and a brief biography of other family members, including himself up to 1927.
In Patton’s book “My Father as I remembered him,” he gives brief descriptions and stories about his family, starting with the first “Patton” and ending with himself in 1927. The first “Patton” was Robert …
Introspections Into Rational Fanatics And Thoughtful Deceivers: Examining The Use Of Memoirs In The Works Of James Hogg And Charles Brockden Brown, Tucker Foster
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The memoir as a specific and unique literary genre has only recently been broached for in-depth critical study, with two major, book-length examinations of the genre appearing in the past decade. While the genre has been around in various formats with various conventions for as long as humans have written, only the memoir boom of the late twentieth and early twenty-first-century called for a more sophisticated look at the genre. This thesis will use these recent observations on the memoir as a genre to shed new light on two classics of gothic literature: Charles Brockden Brown’s 1798 novel Wieland and …
Meeting The Stranger: Closing The Distance In Ernest Hemingway’S A Moveable Feast, Brett Joseph Raszinski
Meeting The Stranger: Closing The Distance In Ernest Hemingway’S A Moveable Feast, Brett Joseph Raszinski
Masters Theses
This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, A Moveable Feast. The analysis focuses on how AMF functions as a memoir, given its complicated publication history. The thesis uses the 2009 Restored Edition, which is most closely associated with Hemingway’s original manuscripts. He crafts his memories of Paris between 1921-1926, develops interactive scenes for twenty-first century readers to discover his story, and constructs a blended voice that closes the distance between his present and his past by writing about his writing process. This thesis adds to the academic conversation of A Moveable Feast, attempting to present how important …
Letters To My Dead Mom, Alexandra Mclaughlin
Letters To My Dead Mom, Alexandra Mclaughlin
Creative Nonfiction MFA Theses
This thesis is a collection of letters to the author's mother spaced throughout seasons of the year.
While Glaciers Slept: Being Human In A Time Of Climate Change By M Jackson, Stephen Siperstein
While Glaciers Slept: Being Human In A Time Of Climate Change By M Jackson, Stephen Siperstein
The Goose
Review of M. Jackson's While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change.
Lines Of Flight: An Atomic Memoir By Julie Salverson, Ashley E. Reis
Lines Of Flight: An Atomic Memoir By Julie Salverson, Ashley E. Reis
The Goose
Review of Julie Salverson’s Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir.
Disarming “Nature” As A Weapon: A Queer Ecosemiotic Reimagining Of Futurity And Environmental Ethics Through Memoir, Sam Lauer
Master’s Theses
In this thesis, I posit that the need for an active, conscious, and radical queering of ecocriticism as a literary and cultural theory has arisen in light of the postmodern problematization of “nature” and the “natural,” along with the queerness of society, culture, and science. The way we understand “nature” (in life and in texts), whether of physical environments, inherent selfhood, or normalcy, begs to be appropriately informed by discourses and realities of queerness in order for both social and environmental healing to take place. I have analyzed three works of queer creative nonfiction—memoirs—to illuminate the ways in which the …
Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides, Jenna Gersie
Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides, Jenna Gersie
The Goose
Review of Marianne Apostolide's Deep Salt Water.
The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly
The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly
The Goose
Review of Michael McCarthy's The Moth Snowstorm.
Let Me Tell You What It Means: Reading Beyond Humor In Selected Iranian-American Memoirs, Stand-Up Comedy, And Film In The Post-9/11 Era, Reza Ashouri Talooki
Let Me Tell You What It Means: Reading Beyond Humor In Selected Iranian-American Memoirs, Stand-Up Comedy, And Film In The Post-9/11 Era, Reza Ashouri Talooki
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
ABSTRACT
Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Muslims in America have continued to remain the subject of cultural and political debates. In their artistic endeavours, Muslim artists have tried to rectify the negative and mediated images attributed to Islam, Muslims, and their cultures. In this dissertation, I look at Iranian works from the diaspora that not only represent Iranian culture and attempt to raise public awareness in America, but also extensively wade into humor as their linking theme. It is humor embedded in socio-cultural and political implications along with cultural representations that constitute my analysis in this dissertation. …
Born Out Of This By Christine Lowther, Erin Linn Mcmullan
Born Out Of This By Christine Lowther, Erin Linn Mcmullan
The Goose
Review of Christine Lowther's Born Out of This.
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's The Lost Landscape, Eric K. Anderson
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's The Lost Landscape, Eric K. Anderson
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Review of Joyce Carol Oates's memoir The Lost Landscape, focusing on how the author's experiences have influenced her writing.
Becoming Wild: Living The Primitive Life On A West Coast Island By Nikki Van Schyndel, Maureen Scott Harris
Becoming Wild: Living The Primitive Life On A West Coast Island By Nikki Van Schyndel, Maureen Scott Harris
The Goose
Maureen Scott Harris reviews Becoming Wild: Living the Primitive Life on a West Coast Island, by Nikki Van Schyndel.
Book Review: Words Without Music: A Memoir, David B. Levy
Book Review: Words Without Music: A Memoir, David B. Levy
Touro College Libraries Publications and Research
The author reviews the book Words Without Music: A Memoir.
Covered In Dust: Coming Of Age In A Gazebo Factory, Jason A. Ney
Covered In Dust: Coming Of Age In A Gazebo Factory, Jason A. Ney
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Covered in Dust: Coming of Age in a Gazebo Factory is a memoir that chronicles the three summers I spent working in the factories at Chestnut Hill Gazebos. The memoir focuses on three narrative strands: the day-to-day life of a factory worker, the struggles within and eventual breakdown of my relationship with my girlfriend, and how my job at Chestnut Hill helped me critique my fundamentalist Christian roots by forcing me into a deeper understanding of my faith and its relationship to the world outside the confines of my upbringing. The critical afterword uses essays by Leona Toker and other …
My Secret Life In Film: A Memoir, Kelly Grey Carlisle
My Secret Life In Film: A Memoir, Kelly Grey Carlisle
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This creative dissertation is an original work in the genre of memoir, and consists of the first two sections of my book, My Secret Life in Film. I believe that my book speaks to contemporary experiences of childhood, violence, sexuality, and faith, and complicates conceptions of a ‘normal’ family. When I was three weeks old, my mother, who worked as a prostitute, was murdered near downtown Los Angeles. Her case remains unsolved, and I do not know my father. Her own parents were unwed. At first I lived with my maternal grandmother and the woman I believe to have been …
Memoir: A Collection Of Short Stories, Jeffrey Kang
Memoir: A Collection Of Short Stories, Jeffrey Kang
CMC Senior Theses
This is a collection of short stories derived from the author's experiences at the United States Naval Academy.