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U.S./Southeast Asian exile narratives, or "refugee literature, tend to be classified as autobiographies, testimonials and personal narratives, and not with other literary genres such as the pastoral. Pastoral representations of the...
The poems in this thesis manuscript deal specifically and theoretically with the concept of finality, and echo influences as varied as Robert Haas, Harvey Shapiro, and Paul Auster. The poems investigate the many forms, structures, ...
A collection of short stories detailing backpackers in foreign countries, Dominican Americans coming to terms with their identity both here and abroad, and the quintessential American return to home.
The following is a novel in the form of a gospel, telling the story of religious fanaticism in the early years of the United Sates and the rebellions in West Florida in the year 1805 and 1810.
Westerners is a collection of eleven stories, mostly about people struggling to connect in this time of so-called "globalization." Two stories set in the 19th century aim to enhance the meanings found in some of the contemporary stories....
The following is a novel in the form of a gospel, telling the story of religious fanaticism in the early years of the United Sates and the rebellions in West Florida in the year 1805 and 1810.
This thesis is a collection of loosely interconnected short stories that examine identity through the lens of place and family. With an emphasis on the setting of Eastern Oregon, these stories span the United States and Canada. Each...
HIGH TEST: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES features five linked stories of lives in flux in the fast-changing landscape of contemporary China. From migrant workers in coastal factory towns to a nouveau-riche millionaire immigrating to the...
As artist John Aubrey approaches the end of his life at the Pineywoods Resort, a late-Victorian tuberculosis sanatorium, he makes one last grasp for an enduring legacy when he latches onto Salome, a young nurse who believes she is...
There is a famous Chekhov quote that goes, There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man, to remind him by his constant knocks that there are unhappy people, and that happy as he himself may be, life will...
Set in Maddley, Connecticut, The Fictionist tells the story of Henry Riordan, a young man unable to come to terms with loss. As Henry pursues a series of unattainable dreams in order to recover an unalterable past, he learns that love, ...
The following is a collection of memoir-based essays that detail the author's life and experiences with her brother throughout their childhood together.
The Deaner is the story of Dean Hauser, a metalhead who becomes a cult celebrity after starring in a mockumentary based on an amped-up version of himself—The Deaner. After two years of fame he's at wits end, spiraling out of control. On...
Shirley Temple Dreams is a collection of linked stories about Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II, the times ranging from the turn of the century to the postwar fifties. Eleven stories are structured into three...
The story follows James Offenbach, a 25-year-old nomadic runner, who has spent seven years as a transient, stealing whatever food and supplies he needs to allow him to continue his self-inflicted isolation. He breaks this isolation when...
Dear Blackbird, is a collection of lyric-narrative poems that seeks to capture the spirit of the rural southern towns my family grew up in. As such, letters to a blackbird (written from the point of view of a scarecrow) are interspersed...
King of Carothers' Altar, Arizona has two time strands which are woven together through alternating chapters. The novel spans the Great Depression to the present day, and takes the reader through the birth and death of a town called...
The Curse of Mary Miller is a fusion of the literary and the magical. The story follows three sisters, the Millers, who are linked by more than just their name. For hundreds of years all Miller women have inexplicably had their cycles...
My thesis is a collection of five short stories, each dealing with characters who continue to wrestle with issues from their youths, specifically unresolved conflicts with their parents that affect their present lives. Having lived in...
Blood We Did Not Spill, a historical political novel, begins in June 1997 when a young Indian Police Services officer stops at a small town to visit a retired police officer—delusional and very sick—on behalf of her boss. She sees him...
The stories collected here are primarily about belief, especially irrational belief. In each piece, a character struggles with rejecting cherished ideals.
Drinking Dirty Water: A Novella is an attempt to examine marriage and divorce in contemporary society through the lens of one woman's experiences with and without her husband. It is also intended, in some small way, to partake in the...
The easiest way to make a living as a poet is to write fiction. That is: When you visit the museum that is the African equivalent of Auschwitz, the hallways are not lined with piles of long hair of Jewish girls or luggage stamped...
This work is a collection of short stories entitled The Way of Mothers. This collection consists of four stories that were originally produced in writing workshops and two stories that I wrote on my own. I have heard many times a quote...
Finding Elvis: Stories - a creative dissertation - is a collection of ten short stories divided into two parts: Bad Jews and Song of Songs. The five stories comprising the first section of the manuscript - Bad Jews - follow, in part, the...
Drawing upon the author's experiences of growing up white and gay in apartheid South Africa, this collection of personal essays explores themes of kitsch, displacement, love, sexuality, and forgiveness. A central question posed by the...
Several of the stories in this collection were inspired by the Lindbergh kidnapping. What most interests me was the public hysteria over the kidnapping, and the astonishing number of people who attempted to insinuate themselves into the...
This novel is a comedy. It contains the quixotic adventure of a twenty-five-year-old lawn man living in a state of extended adolescence who decides to investigate a murder allegedly committed by his boss. In his quest, he is aided by two...
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