Smooth As Raven's Claws,
2013
Bridgewater State University
Smooth As Raven's Claws, Kyle Farnworth
Honors Program Theses and Projects
This Creative Honors Thesis titled Smooth as Raven's Claws is a novel that focuses on a young mixed martial arts fighter named Dennis Lopes after his release from prison and his struggle to find a place in the corrupt world he is entering. The piece is populated with many characters whose lives intersect as they form a radical group of young outcasts and misfits that try to create positive change in the fictional Chatgrove City, though not by positive means. Dennis becomes a masked vigilante known only as “The Raven”, and he uses his newfound persona and followers to try …
L’Empreinte Du Renard De Moussa Konaté Et Les
Transformations Africaines Du Polar,
2013
Université de Toronto
L’Empreinte Du Renard De Moussa Konaté Et Les Transformations Africaines Du Polar, Alexie Tcheuyap
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Within sub-Saharan Africa, Moussa Konaté is undoubtedly the contemporary writer dedicated to producing the most original crime fiction. In L’empreinte du renard, he offers a fundamental subversion of the genre that breaks with conventional thought on crime narratives. Moreover, the subversion of the canon accompanies a subversion of political structures by which the end of the story accompanies the end of the postcolonial state as it is known, and often caricatured: the State of corruption. As a result, such intrigue also becomes that of governmentability.
Archéologie Du Cachot,
2013
University of Pennsylvania
Archéologie Du Cachot, Lydie Moudileno
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
This essay examines the relationship between writing, memory and prison, as it is deployed in Patrick Chamoiseau’s tenth novel Un dimanche au cachot (2007). In this text, the inscription of the writer within the space of a small prison located on a Martinican plantation, serves Chamoiseau’s larger project to survey the Caribbean territory in order to unveil memorial traces. As it exhumes the ruins of an old disciplinary prison cell, this archeological move triggers a series of crucial transformations: in Un dimanche au cachot, prison writing reclaims a new glissantian “Lieu”, while making room for a therapeutic way of dealing …
Généalogies De L'Errance,
2013
University fo Rochester
Généalogies De L'Errance, Cilas Kemedjio
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
The city narrative is Chamoiseau’s most original contribution to the west Indian worldview. Such writing is based on the poetics of creolity and on the memory of housing, visible in the ancestral hatred of dogs by municipal workers. It also builds up intertextual links which question both Cesairian Negritude and Glissant’s poetics. The historical memory of Chamoiseau’s characters and the intertextual links in his works transform his writings on townlife into a form of consolidation of a literary tradition which renews the genealogy of wandering life.
Explorations: Five Science Fiction Stories,
2013
University of Southern Mississippi
Explorations: Five Science Fiction Stories, Daniel Joseph Pinney
Dissertations
These stories explore a universe populated by the stuff of space opera—enormous space stations, mysterious alien artifacts, starships and terraforming and emission nebulae, a human civilization that over millennia has spread across the galaxy. These explorations are not conducted by the usual swashbuckling heroes of space opera, however, but rather by the sorts of people who would have to live and make a living in such a future.
The perspectives from which this future is explored include those of an asteroid miner who loses his ship even as he is discovering the wonders of art, a man whose misuse of …
Writing The Script For A Children’S Book Based On Bulee “Slim Gaillard” Rothschild, 1930s-1950s-Era Jazz Performer,
2013
SUNY Buffalo State University
Writing The Script For A Children’S Book Based On Bulee “Slim Gaillard” Rothschild, 1930s-1950s-Era Jazz Performer, Thomas J. Samuels
Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects
This project focuses on the creative process behind my writing of a children’s book themed around the work of Bulee “Slim Gaillard” Rothschild. Over several years, I conducted meetings where many ideas for such a book were generated. In this paper, the process of writing the script is described in detail. This paper includes the children’s book script, which benefits the legacy of Slim Gaillard.
All Four Knot, A Cover Story,
2013
Dominican University of California
All Four Knot, A Cover Story, Sean Adrian Smith
Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects
No abstract provided.
Misremember Me,
2013
Boise State University
Misremember Me, Alex Kiesig
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
An American travels to Crete with his English ex-girlfriend in Misremember Me, a modern novel in the tradition of the Lost Generation.
Birthday Curse,
2013
Loyola Marymount University
Birthday Curse, Vichida Vongvanij
Writing Programs
A freshman major in entrepreneurship from Bangkok, Thailand, Vichida Vongvanij takes her reader on an exhilarating and colorful science fiction journey. In her short story, the protagonist, Sally, endures terrifying nightmares every year on her birthday. This year, she wakes up alone in a dense forest and finds herself in perilous defense against the dark forces of nature that pursue her. As an international student, Vongvanij eloquently incorporates a unique voice and style in crafting the animated story of Sally and her birthday curse, culminating in an unexpected plot twist. This short story was written for Dr. Janna Goebel’s English …
How To Walk In The Dark,
2013
SUNY Geneseo
Half,
2013
SUNY Geneseo
Chipped Polish And Hidden Cigarettes,
2013
SUNY Geneseo
Chipped Polish And Hidden Cigarettes, Christina Mortellaro
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
The Truth Chair,
2013
SUNY Geneseo
Little Rituals,
2013
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Little Rituals, Bruce Johnson
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The following stories represent what I have accomplished in my three-and-a-half years in the Master of Fine Arts-Fiction program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. They are all realist stories, most of them with a minimalist leaning. Together for the first time, they are more than a mere sum of the writing I've done in my time in the MFA program. They are the stories that, when I read them now, still occasionally delight me. Most of the stories that I wrote as an MFA candidate do not pass this test, and thus are not included here. If there is …
Leaving Adak,
2013
SUNY Geneseo
Watch The Ash Soar,
2013
SUNY New Paltz
Cashmere Sweater: A History,
2013
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Of Rivers And Remembrance,
2013
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Reading Joyce's Ulysses: Leopold Bloom,
2013
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Aging: My 71st Birthday,
2013
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
