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Appalachia Summer/Fall 2018: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2018 - Volume LXIX, Number 2 - Issue #246. Role Reversal in the Mountains: New Perspectives, New Circumstances

Reclaiming The "I": Memoir Writing As Feminist Activism, Michela Sottura

University Honors Theses

When I set out to write about my body and what happened to me, I knew I was going to have to sit with parts of myself I had long silenced, overlooked, maybe even abandoned. When I first took a class on women's memoir writing I was struck by the power of the stories we read. I felt like a door had been opened for me, as I witnessed the importance of sharing one's personal lived history. Reading the words of women with different identities and experiences than mine taught me how memoir can inspire, challenge, educate, rewrite, heal, and …

Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills

Masters Theses

Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …

Blackout, Shikhar Gupta '22

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

Permanence. Anxiety. Acceptance., Christi Kruger

The Quatrain

Christi Kruger is originally from South Africa but moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 2014. Being a first-year biomedical engineering student at Louisiana Tech University, schoolwork consumes most of her time, however that doesn’t stop her from exercising her passion for drawing and painting. She especially tries to capture the intricacies of nature and animals, as it allows her to focus on such small, intimate details.

Contributor Biographies

The Quatrain

No abstract provided.

Fallin, Kristyn Hardy

The Quatrain

Kristyn Hardy is an English major at Louisiana Tech University with a concentration in creative writing. She was raised in a home surrounded by books, wit, and love, making the three somewhat synonymous to her. It has only been in the last couple years that she has considered dedicating her life to writing, but she loves it and cannot wait to see where it takes her.

The Proving, Noah Weatherly

The Quatrain

Noah Weatherly is an English student at Louisiana Tech University with a concentration in creative writing. He aspires to be a novelist someday, but if this dream isn’t realized, he hopes to enrich the minds of future generations as a professor at the college of his choice. He enjoys reading, writing, and going to the movies when there isn’t a pandemic.

Train Station Of The Afterlife, Alayna Juneau

The Quatrain

Alayna Juneau is a senior in interdisciplinary studies at Louisiana Tech University. She is passionate about telling stories through any medium. Her favorite things to do are pet cats, take naps, and play video games. She hopes to one day be a game developer, a writer, or a crazy cat lady.

Collecting Seashells, Caitlin Upshall

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

The Season Of The Itch, Christopher Duggan

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Monday, Minnie Zhang

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Sometimes Picnickers Gaze Into The Heavens And See Large Ferocious Animals, Brett Thompson

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Heritage Dreams, Southern Nightmares, Chanèl P. Etienne

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The stories compiled here are the fruits of many deep discussions, late nights, and countless cups of coffee. The themes come from what I have dreamt of, fretted over, and/or hope will never come true. They took up so much room in my head that I had to spill them into paper. Tread lightly in the dreamscape.

We Built This Kingdom, John H. Cape

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

We Built This Kingdom is a collection of short stories which strive to examine the nuances of queer love, lust, connection, aggression, affection, masculinity, and heartache.

My intent is for these pieces to stand alone as short stories, but when read sequentially, the reader should be able to parse a connection between the texts and follow a tether from one to the other.

This collection of short fiction represents a cumulative body of work in partial completion of a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.

Pal, Alex Tronson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A collection of short fiction set in the Midwest.

Odd Botany, Isaac G. Lauritsen

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Odd Botany engages with the concepts of the wild and the domestic in poetry to create whimsical, humorous poems that contend with the darker aspects of living. Varied in form, many of these poems are persona poems and use animals other than humans as speakers. Using distortion, surprise, and word-play, the poems attempt to create a psychic-turbulence to be pleasurable and enlivening to the reader.

Enough, Michelle K. Bourgeois

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This collection of short stories follows the themes of trauma and the feeling of not being enough for yourself or others. This includes the pressures we put on ourselves to keep trying to be “right” or what we’re “supposed to be”. The idea is apparent that reaching out instead of self- isolating benefits the characters. What also connects these works is a hint of Southern flair, family, and humor. An irreverent voice connects the work and most of the characters. The inclusion of humor to get through suffering and as a way to talk about tough subjects is a concurrent …

Down At The Crossroads: Letters From The Regions Of Myself, Téo E. Chesney

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A collection of eight epistolary nonfiction essays by Téo Chesney concerned with the challenges of understanding the intersections of their identity as a Brazilian, transmasculine, adoptee. The letters contend with constructing new meanings of family, race, gender, and belonging. Through evocative imagined scenes and childhood fantasies, this collection can truly be called a personal mythology.

Signs Of Ghost Appearance In Short Stories In Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad (1936-1939): Semiotic Analisys, Rufaida Rufaida, Fajar Muhammad Nugraha

International Review of Humanities Studies

In 2018-2019 the production of the Indonesian ghost story is much in demand and favored, even in 2020 the ghost content on YouTube is still lively and salable in the Indonesian market. The existence of ghosts cannot be separated from the daily lives of Indonesians.The author is interested in exploring further how the signs of the emergence of a ghostly figure believed by the people in the colonial era. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method with an approach using the analysis of language semiotics from the perspective of Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics theory. 5 ghost stories published by the …

Let’S Speak Of The Things We Don’T Tell Each Other, Meghan N. O'Brien

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A collection of short fiction that examines human loneliness and the animal strength found in isolation.

Arts & Literature: The Many Faces Of Hope, Fiza Lee-Winter

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

The Chimera: Multiple Selves, Conflicting Desires, And Fluctuating Power Relations In Qualitative Research, Su Jung Um

The Qualitative Report

In this article, I (re)constructed and (re)presented a dialogic inquiry among my chimeric selves engaged in a study which I conducted from 2013 to 2017 to examine teaching experiences of graduates from a social justice-oriented preservice program. I interrogated the roles of my different, disparate, and discontinuous selves in the research process – as a former teacher, a former instructor of my research participants, a researcher with particular academic and political opinions, and as a foreigner working toward a doctoral degree from/in a U.S. higher education institution. In this article, I demonstrated how my chimeric selves with conflicting desires and …

Fractions: Perspective In Place, Madeleine Adams

The Quatrain

Madeleine Adams is from Walker, Louisiana. She graduated from Louisiana Tech University on March 6th, 2020, with her Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in literature. She is currently pursuing her Master of Arts in English with concentration in post-1660s British literature. Madeleine is interested in modern retellings of myths/folklore and the effects of storytelling on literature. She is the current dual enrollment Graduate Assistant, and she tutors at the writing center. She likes to paint, read, sew, and write poetry when she gets the chance. She wants to go into publishing/editing books after graduating.

All Things Considered, Conor Murtagh

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Inspired by fictional works from Denis Johnson and Ken Kesey, in addition to trauma theorists Cathy Caruth, Sandra L. Bloom, and Anne Whitehead, All Things Considered details the painful past and pensive present of Evan and Darcey, two 30-somethings trying desperately to conceal their divorce from Evan’s parents during a holiday trip home. Separated into 10 chapters, this coming-of-age novella delves into the lives of the two main characters, Evan and Darcey, as well as supporting characters, Evan’s family - Mom, Dad, Chase, and the already-deceased Ashleigh. Split between expository information from the past and confrontations in the present, each …

Quand C'Est?, Shanice Casimiro

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Quand c'est? is an excerpt from a semi-autobiographical novel about a twenty-six-year-old Dominican American woman named Jada, who moves back to suburban New Jersey from Chicago to begin her PhD studies. Regrets cloud Jada’s initial excitement to escape Chicago (which for years has triggered memories of depression, anxiety, academic failure, and isolation) when the difficulties of cohabitating with her single mother, Altagracia, start to accumulate. Running parallel to Jada’s academic journey is an exploration of approaching bereavement. A few weeks prior to Jada's arrival, her grandfather, Domingo, began losing weight and having trouble breathing, eating, and sleeping. Jada must learn …

The Quatrain - Volume 5

The Quatrain

The Quatrain is managed by students at Louisiana Tech University and advised by faculty from the College of Liberal Arts. The journal is housed in George T. Madison Hall, where undergraduates collect, assess, and edit submissions from student writers and artists.

The Quatrain is a print and electronic project for people who value quality undergraduate writing and art. Full-dress researched, academic essays and scholarly explorations; photography; life-writing; sculpture; cultural criticism; work that has a reflective, autobiographical style; and creative writing in all its forms: We simply seek to display samples of the interesting, original, and quality work being produced by …

Unlived Lives, Aneeq Ejaz

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

No abstract provided.

Jane Doe, Susan Taylor Chehak

Mad River Review

No abstract provided.

Finally It's All Thanks, Jonah Smith-Bartlett

Mad River Review

No abstract provided.