Tonight, I Broke A Glass.,
2022
University of Mississippi
And Your Eyes Open,
2022
Western Michigan University
And Your Eyes Open, Benjamin Yusen
The Hilltop Review
This piece explores the realties of dreams, and the blurring of dreams and reality.
World Upside Down,
2022
Western Michigan University
Pollination,
2022
Western Michigan University
How To Make Cemetery Tea,
2022
Western Michigan University
The Flow Of (Re)Memory In African American And Nubian Egyptian Literature: Morrison, Oddoul, And Mukhtar,
2022
American University in Cairo
The Flow Of (Re)Memory In African American And Nubian Egyptian Literature: Morrison, Oddoul, And Mukhtar, Bushra Hashem
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis is to define the term rememory, which Toni Morrison coins in her novel Beloved, and explore its interplay with water imagery in the novel and in two Nubian short stories, namely Haggag Oddoul’s “The River People” and Yahya Mukhtar’s “The Nile Bride.” The three narratives have core common features: they centralize water bodies as key sites of events, they depend heavily on the retelling of history and mythology, and they are told predominantly from the perspective of women. How do the writers weave rememory, history, and mythology to produce these narratives? Are they attempting to …
Cultivating Creative Storytelling,
2022
Santa Clara University
Cultivating Creative Storytelling, Emma Kuli
Canterbury Scholars
This essay investigates how the structural expectations and narrative conventions restrict contemporary creative writing. This work seeks to imagine how, in order to work towards the creation of an anti-racist creative space, a classroom may work without and against the limits set by writing and language conventions. Blending academic research, sample student work, and narrative anecdotes, this essay examines the ways in which storytelling can be used to uplift young writing voices.
Identity In The 21st Century Nigerian Fiction: A Case Study Of Blackass By Igoni A. Barrett.,
2022
Texas Tech University
Identity In The 21st Century Nigerian Fiction: A Case Study Of Blackass By Igoni A. Barrett., Ogochukwu B. Ossai
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship
This paper attempts to examine the allegorical narrative strategies and politics of identity—race, and gender, using postcolonial and racial frameworks. The novel, Blackass written by a Nigerian writer is a 21st century fierce comic satirical adaptation of Metamorphosis, a novella by Franz Kafka. The intricacies and culture within a society and ethnicity in a nation such as patriarchy are explored through the language, characters, and development of the plot in Nigerian literature. For this essay, I enter into the discourse of race by analyzing the social and cultural phenomena that occur throughout the structure of the fictional work.
Soviet Space,
2022
Dartmouth College
Scenes From The Screenplay The Interloper,
2022
Dartmouth College
Scenes From The Screenplay The Interloper, Michael Wiener
CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal
No abstract provided.
A Walmart With No Televisions,
2022
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
A Walmart With No Televisions, Samuel A. Bickford
LSU Master's Theses
A Walmart with No Televisions is a deconstructed novel about the perils and heartbreak of adolescent drug addiction. What begins as a fad, a social affectation, quickly becomes a guiding light. The novel illustrates hope as a potentiality, and escape from oneself as something always in question. Happiness is uncertain, but the experience is not.
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence,
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This essay explores the realms of special places, the literary genre of fantasy, narrative, and comics. These topics are traversed alongside subjects of adolescence and the creation of stories for middle-grade readers. Framed with personal stories, as well as peaks into my process, I investigate these subjects through the lens of my own life and work, specifically my thesis project, a comic for middle-grade readers titled Beyond the Castle Walls. Beginning with adolescence in association with special places, I consider the work of developmental psychologists David Sobel and Edith Cobb as they pin-point the role of secret forts, nature, …
Meet Me In The Middle Ages: Engaging With Fantasy, Reality, And Collaborative World-Building,
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
Meet Me In The Middle Ages: Engaging With Fantasy, Reality, And Collaborative World-Building, Amanda Greene
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This critical essay accompanies and describes my thesis project, Medievalia Miscellany, a magazine for middle-grade readers which explores the world of medieval fantasy through art, comics, stories, and activities. Throughout the essay, I use my own term “archaeological upcycling” to discuss and explore a variety of relationships between ideas of parts and a whole. I then use it to characterize the way stories are created out of many different parts and how these parts help a reader to relate to both the world of the story and the world in which they live. I describe the genre of medieval fantasy …
Twisting Tales: A Guide To Fairytale Adaptation,
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
Twisting Tales: A Guide To Fairytale Adaptation, Tori Forster
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
“Twisting Tales” is a guidebook examining fairytales and the realm of fairytale adaptation. To begin with, I define fairytales by expanding on Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories”. By defining fairytales as abstracted tales set in the realm of Faerie, adaptations of fairytales become an avenue in which to explore world building and narrative, which fairytales naturally lend themselves to. The guidebook also explores more troubling tropes and trends in the fairytale, particularly those regarding women. Marcia K. Lieberman’s essay “Someday My Prince Will Come”critiques heroines in fairytales and serves as a dialogue for the role of the female protagonist in …
Grieve Not,
2022
Wayne State University
Grieve Not, Joy Notoma
The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal
No abstract provided.
Three Confusing Interactions I Had With Men Today,
2022
Wayne State University
Three Confusing Interactions I Had With Men Today, Megan Cox
The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal
No abstract provided.
The Shrouded Parent At Midnight,
2022
Wayne State University
The Shrouded Parent At Midnight, Susan L. Lin
The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal
No abstract provided.
End Destination,
2022
Wayne State University
End Destination, Lucy Zhang
The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal
No abstract provided.
Workers Of Iniquity: Stories,
2022
Mississippi State University
Workers Of Iniquity: Stories, Isaac Huckaby
Theses and Dissertations
In her essay, “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction,” Flannery O’Connor notes, “Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one” (44). In the introduction to this collection, I investigate the importance of the grotesque, gothic, and surreal elements that tend to make up the depictions of the South in the works of authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Brad Watson and several horror writers, such as Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and H.P. Lovecraft, exploring how horror can be used to emphasize the …
Void,
2022
National University Mall of Asia (NU MOA)
Void, Jaycylle Kayne A. Soto
DLSU Senior High School Research Congress
The main driving force of the author to write the collection of flash fictions "Void" is to express people's different representations of feeling void. From the void we feel inside to the one that others make us feel. The goal of this collection is to let the readers know that they are not alone in feeling this kind of void represented in each literary piece. Moreover, this collection also includes unsettled and unsolved personal, family, and societal issues people of different classes and lifestyles may face and that creates a drastic change in an individual’s way of living. Throughout the …
