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Smoked Blood And Lavender, Diana L. Elizondo May 2016

Smoked Blood And Lavender, Diana L. Elizondo

Theses and Dissertations

My project is a demonstration of how the Gothic genre can still have an influence in contemporary poetry as well as how the traditional forms can still be effective when developing diction and originality. This project is a collection of poems that addresses a range of issues in society and politics, as well as the deconstruction of the notions of romance in everyday life. In the introduction to my thesis, my poems are analyzed stylistically, as well as the themes they represent and the sources that influenced them. Furthermore, my poems are divided in five sections and each focuses on …


Save My Sins For Sunday, Gabriel Leal May 2016

Save My Sins For Sunday, Gabriel Leal

Theses and Dissertations

This is a collection of poetry that depicts the struggles of family separation, to the street and drug life, to the questioning of faith and religion, to the revelation that education was the only means of escape. Set in the Rio Grande Valley, this collection allows the reader to travel though the rough streets of South Texas where anger, pain, and joy coincide. Embedded in a Tex-Mex voice, I take you through my experiences that allowed me to see that there was no future for me in the streets and that I would rather be institutionalized by universities, rather than …


You Either Laugh Or Cry, Laura Espinoza May 2016

You Either Laugh Or Cry, Laura Espinoza

Theses and Dissertations

You Either Laugh or Cry is a collection of bilingual flash non-fiction stories. Through the use of language the writer has employed code switching and humor to retell memories of her of childhood through young adulthood. Although the collection includes various members of the writer’s family, the short-shorts mainly focus on the mother-daughter relationship.


The Canción Cannibal Cabaret And Other Songs: Feminists Of A Dystopian Future Repurpose A Punk Past, Amalia L. Ortiz May 2016

The Canción Cannibal Cabaret And Other Songs: Feminists Of A Dystopian Future Repurpose A Punk Past, Amalia L. Ortiz

Theses and Dissertations

This collection of poem-songs is an experiment in combining poetry and theatre. Focused on the theme of revolution and inspired by current issues of social justice, the manuscript is set in a not-so-distant future. After an environmental apocalypse, a refugee raised under an oppressive state, La Madre Valiente studies secretly to become the leader of a feminist revolution. Her emissaries roam the land telling her story, educating others, and enlisting allies in revolution. My goal is to transform the text into live theatrical performances so that the manuscript serves both as a poetry collection and as a script. Some critics …


The Fallen Female: A Testimony, Husney Farwa Naqvi May 2016

The Fallen Female: A Testimony, Husney Farwa Naqvi

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a collection of thematically related nonfiction works that offers a cultural critique of the author’s three cultures – Pakistani, American, and Muslim – through a feminist lens. The author attempts to offer an intersectional feminist’s insight based on her lived experiences as a Pakistani American woman – born in Karachi, raised in Louisiana and the Rio Grande Valley in Deep South Texas. It explores feminist theory, focusing heavily on rape culture (“Shame and Regrets,” “Bollywood’s Rape Fetish”) and religious influences (“Infallible,” “The Hijab”). It also details the author’s experience as a Muslim woman who chose to observe …


What In A Good Cause Men May Both Dare And Venture, Karen Schwarze May 2016

What In A Good Cause Men May Both Dare And Venture, Karen Schwarze

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In this thesis, I present a short story in the historical fiction genre. I researched the plight of Bavarian schoolteachers during the 1848 revolution and integrated this historical information into the story. The Cultural Minister at the time, Karl von Abel, had instituted strict measures against schoolteachers. For example, they were forbidden to read certain books (a key element in the story), attend taverns, and meet outside of regulated teachers conferences. Teachers also were denied civil servant status, which meant that no pension was available to them.

In my short story, the main character, Franz Schuler, must decide whether or …


Onliness, Christine Davis May 2016

Onliness, Christine Davis

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Sonder, Margaret Thon May 2016

Sonder, Margaret Thon

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Frontierland, Sarah Hopkins May 2016

Frontierland, Sarah Hopkins

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Flickering, Sarah Steil May 2016

Flickering, Sarah Steil

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Love Is Lemons, Abigail Allen May 2016

Love Is Lemons, Abigail Allen

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Escargot, Brenna Crowe May 2016

Escargot, Brenna Crowe

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Stone Village, Jiaming Tang May 2016

Stone Village, Jiaming Tang

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In Now, Amelia Mcnally May 2016

In Now, Amelia Mcnally

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Winning The Lottery, 1969 // Cannon Fodder, Jay May 2016

Winning The Lottery, 1969 // Cannon Fodder, Jay

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Sunleaves, Meghan Barrett May 2016

Sunleaves, Meghan Barrett

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The Minoans, Jalen A. Blithe May 2016

The Minoans, Jalen A. Blithe

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I Am The Stone, Brendan Mahoney May 2016

I Am The Stone, Brendan Mahoney

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A Guide To Recognizing Your Ghost, Savannah Skinner May 2016

A Guide To Recognizing Your Ghost, Savannah Skinner

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98.2, Sequoya Fitzpatrick May 2016

98.2, Sequoya Fitzpatrick

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Snow Child, Rachel Britton May 2016

Snow Child, Rachel Britton

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Maytag, Jared Chase May 2016

Maytag, Jared Chase

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C I N G U L U M, Sarah Simon May 2016

C I N G U L U M, Sarah Simon

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We As Bird & Branch // Things We Remember Years Later In Our Dreams, Chloe Forsell May 2016

We As Bird & Branch // Things We Remember Years Later In Our Dreams, Chloe Forsell

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Berenstein/Berenstain, Rachel Colomban May 2016

Berenstein/Berenstain, Rachel Colomban

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Paper Anniversary // Brass Band Epithalamion // On Losing My Wedding Ring While Planting An Orchard, Dante Di Stephano May 2016

Paper Anniversary // Brass Band Epithalamion // On Losing My Wedding Ring While Planting An Orchard, Dante Di Stephano

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"Clarity" And "The Romantic Marvin Milkweed"., Adam Christopher Lippert May 2016

"Clarity" And "The Romantic Marvin Milkweed"., Adam Christopher Lippert

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Algernon Bay is the owner of a small art gallery on Chicago’s north side. And “Clarity” begins the day after Alge has acquired a very unique and special painting. It is the day of his inaugural ritual, which he hopes can recalibrate his life. Approximately a year ago, his wife Esmeralda gave birth to a stillborn infant, and their marriage has slowly deteriorated since. Now it is on the cusp of completely collapsing. Alge and Esmeralda are finally desperate, and they take unthinkable measures to attain the feeling of love once more. “The Romantic Marvin Milkweed” is a story that …


Master Buddha & The Jolly Golly Fun Time Gang., Todd Edward Evans May 2016

Master Buddha & The Jolly Golly Fun Time Gang., Todd Edward Evans

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is the first two chapters of a novel. The novel parodies the capitalist and consumerist United States of the 21st Century in the tradition of Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, and Donald Barthelme.


This Sleep Of Reason., Brit Thompson May 2016

This Sleep Of Reason., Brit Thompson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis encompasses two features: 1) a critical component that contextualizes and supports the second component, 2) a short Southern Gothic novella. Critical analyses of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction and discourse about the genre illustrate where inspiration was drawn, and how the project’s creative component contributes to this genre. The project explores anxieties of displacement, isolation, and a stuck-in-the-past-temporality, as shown through the vessel of characters’ houses. The novella is decentralized in form and point-of-view—fragmentary excerpts of technological communications are utilized to illustrate how the protagonist’s problems are literally always on hand. The project argues that because the south remains …


Grieve If You Want, Travis Scott Ray May 2016

Grieve If You Want, Travis Scott Ray

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This collection of short stories is trying to say something about empathy. It’s trying to connect with readers in an effort to convey some small kind of emotion the characters are experiencing. It’s about the difficulty we all have connecting and communicating with each other and ourselves.