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Happily Ever After And Other Lies My Childhood Told Me, Rachel Anna Neff

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

A manuscript-length book of poetry with a critical preface centered on the idea of mythology, nursery rhymes, and foundational (Western) fictions and how the cultural norms and expectations that those texts create influence an individual, particularly with respect to gender and gender identity.

Raising Ebenezer, Shannon Lee Bianco

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Raising Ebenezer is an antropoesia collection representing the adoption story of a Christian family and their children from Uganda, Africa. Through poetry, essay, short story, flash fiction, and non-traditional genres, Raising Ebenezer investigates the culture of international adoption, love, fear, faith, loss, corruption and redemption. It is a work of creative non-fiction.

Keeper Of Darkness, Meagan Elizabeth Kinley

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

"Keeper of Darkness" follows Hal as he encounters the monsters that makes up his dark world. When darkness shifts and an escape is found, he falls into the world of light erupting into a sea of questions about his world, as well as who is responsible for the eternal night.

Tumbling Dice And Other Tales From A Life Untitled, Tammy Mckillip Mckillip

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Tumbling Dice and Other Tales from a Life Untitled is a Thesis collection of memoir stories by Tammy Quinn McKillip.

The 100 Precepts Of Orran Dain, Daniel Lee Pickles

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

A novel surrounding the mass-suicide of a cult in Northern Wisconsin.

Brújula Quebrada, Julio Antonio Molinete

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Brújula quebrada o la reinvención del dolor, es un cuaderno de poesía en el cual se aborda el fenómeno del exilio, de la diáspora. Verso a verso es la historia de un diasporante signado por la angustia, el rechazo y el desprecio. Pero más que un poemario personal, deviene en un pedazo de la historia contemporánea cubana. Esa en donde los hijos de la Isla se ven obligados a escapar en pos de la libertad, un derecho que se hace esquivo aun en la tierra de la libertad.

And Second Comes The Son, Matthew Phillips

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

'And Second Comes the Son' is a post-war noir novel.

Behind Mount Rushmore, Darlene Priscilla Campos

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

A collection of short stories which take place on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota

Ashley's Sister, Christina Phillips

Theses and Dissertations

This nonfiction project is a memoir, constructed in sections, about my relationship with my sister with an intellectual disability.

The Color Of Memory: Reimagining The Antebellum South In Works By James Mcbride Through The Use Of Free Indirect Discourse, Janel L. Holmes

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the use of interior narrative techniques such as free indirect discourse and internal monologue in two of James McBride’s neo-slave narratives, Song Yet Sung (2008) and The Good Lord Bird (2013). Very limited critical attention has been given to these neo-slave narratives that illustrate McBrides attention to characterization and focalized narration. In these narratives McBride builds upon the revelations he explores in his bestselling memoir, The Color of Water (1996, 2006), where he learns to disassociate race and character. What he discovers about not only his mother, but also himself, inspires his re-imagination of the people who …

"I Am From Epifania And Tomas": An Autoethnography And Bi-Literacy Narrative Of A Mexican American Orchard Workers' Daughter, Brenda Lorena Aguilar

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

"This is an autoethnography and bi-literacy narrative of a first-generation Mexican American woman whose parents work in the orchards around Mattawa, Washington. It is a collection of 44 written artifacts dating back to high school Spanish class and moving forward to the graduate papers written in the master's program at Eastern Washington University as well as concurrent and retrospective journal entries documenting her infancy years through her graduate studies. A close and interactive reading of works by Mexican Americans, Richard Rodriguez and Gloria Anzaldua, is offered by the author who connects her own experiences growing up bilingually and biculturally in …

Things I (Say And Don't) Mean, Caitlyn Lee Finger

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Under The Deck, Brendan M. Raleigh

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

The Imprisoned Richard Simmons And Other Stories Of Growing Up, Danielle Buynak

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Proof They Were There, Holly Lavecchia

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Three For A Girl, Danielle K. Weeks

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Constellations – A Space In Time That’S Filled With Moving, Deanne Leber

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Constellations in the sky have been a source of inspiration, in both science and literature, for aeons. Working within the constraints of the ‘official’ 88 constellations, as devised by the International Astronomical Union, this study involved researching the myths and histories of constellations, and then creating a collection of poems based upon those. Thematic connections between the eight modern constellation “families” or groups of constellations were explored and it is in these groupings that the poems work, to tie together, through experimentations with language, a somewhat cohesive fabric of poetry.

Each constellation consists of three poems. The first is a …

"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman

Faculty Publications

This essay explores Junot Díaz's only full-length novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, through the theoretical lens of sociolinguistics and examines the ways in which Díaz has attempted to overcome the publishing industry's complicity in maintaining the nation's ethnocentric expectations in regards to English as the only acceptable language of publication. By introducing the work of several sociolinguists into the discussion, examining the use of African American Vernacular and “nerdish” alongside the Spanish, and reviewing Díaz’s relationship with his editors, I provide a more nuanced reading of the ubiquitous code-switching throughout Oscar Wao and suggest that beyond …

Spared The Technicolor, Peter C. Friedman

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Verve, Stephanie L. Zahareas

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

From The Back Of A Bus Named Desire, Brenda D. Quant

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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A Bedlam Of Shenanigans, Andrew F. Kooy

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Headshot, Jason S. Obrien

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Signs Of Friendship, Kaylee J. Kapalko, Ashley N. Brickner

Honors Projects

This children's book is about mainstreaming a deaf student into a public school composed of predominantly hearing children, and the eventual friendship between that student and a hearing student. The majority of deaf students are educated in hearing schools and experience high rates of social isolation as a result of the inability to communicate with their peers. In order to create this book, there was collaboration between a communication disorders major and a creative writing major in order to create a realistic portrayal yet creative learning tool for children at a young age. We chose to aim our book at …

Selections From "Darkness On The Edge Of Town", Keaton K. Lamle

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

Selections from "Darkness on the Edge of Town" consists of a series of scenes from the novel, which chronicles the disparate lives of three aging couples as they prepare to celebrate their 50 Year Class Reunion in rural southwestern Oklahoma.

Writing To Save The Earth, Jill Blye, Brea Caisey, Samantha Cicirelli, Brianna Davidson, Brianna Gallagher, Adam Hayes, Sydney Holbrook, Julianne Kilduff, Cassidy Morrow, Haley Piotrowski, Danielle Souza, William Tkaczuk, Leonarda Vieira

Student Scholarship and Projects

A Magazine of Sustainable Ideas from EN199 Writing for the Earth (Professor John Kucich, Fall 2015)

A Sense of Place: Essays on Where We Live

• Fogo, Cabo Verde, by Leonarda Vieira
• Weweantic River, by Sydney Holbrook
• Carver Pond, by Brianna Gallagher
• Nantasket Beach, by Brianna Davidson
• Ames Nowell, by Cassidy Morrow
• Old Orchard Beach, by Jill Blye
• A Place in the Sky, by Danielle Souza
• Pond Meadow, by Samantha Cicirelli

Imagining a Future: Speculative Fiction

• Peggy the Penguin in Antarctica, by Haley Piotrowski
• Lives Change in One Day, by Julianne Kilduff
• Dust, by Adam Hayes

Taking Action: Policy, Politics and …

La Première Couche D’Encre, Abdourahman Waberi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The author reexamines his engagement with the Rwandan genocide.

Du Témoin Et De L’Humain Chez Gilbert Gatore : Le Passé Devant Soi, Jean-Pierre Karegeye

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article revisits Gatore’s novel, The past ahead, in analyzing the idea of witnessing. Some critics estimate that the novel does not make a clear distinction between the perpetrator and the victim. While recognizing the danger, the article extends the debate on the notion of the human beyond the categories of “perpetrator” and “victim”. Without excusing acts of the former, the author of this article affirms that the perpetrator and the victim belong to the same humanity. While they remain extreme and inexcusable, crime against humanity and genocides are not a contingent acts, which opens a meditation on the fragility …

Tale Of Entrails, Howard Schaap

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Skagway, Robin Johnstone

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.