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The Kindness of Strangers, takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and is composed of three books, each the narrative of one day, one January 10th -- date of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake -- in the lives of its characters. I examine the notions...
This collection of short stories contains my work about my homeland, Taiwan, as well as my American experience. Back in Taiwan, I often questioned my identity as a woman in a male dominant society. "Women are worthless" is a poison that...
This is a collection of short stories in fulfillment of the Florida State University Ph.D. dissertation requirement. The collection contains eight stories. Its title is Catching Up: A Collection. The stories form a type of sequential...
The work contained in this manuscript stems from personal experience and a desire to portray life in honest, detailed poems. Some events are factual while others are speculative, all of which spins on an axis of imagery. The actions of...
The Paper Machine is a collection of narrative and contemplative poems whose speakers explore the significance of domestic relationships that shape everyday life. Works in this series of poems engage rural and urban southern settings in...
This thesis is an examination of David Cronenberg's Videodrome. In the course of the thesis I compare a fictional account of terrorist activity to the behaviors and organizational machinery of genuine terrorist organizations such as the...
The three stories contained in this thesis function as an exploration of hybrid identity. The main character, Nomi, is a "k'tina khozeret, a returning adolescent. In legal terms, in Israel, this is a person born in Israel who is removed...
This study concerns itself with studying the ways in which various texts both examine and display the effects of technology as manifested by automobiles, trains, and computers as well as the change such inventions have brought about...
Welcome to Century Village is a collection of short stories narrated by second and third generation Jewish Americans living in South Florida. All of the stories are told in first-person, in a distinctly Yiddish idiom. Most of the stories...
Playing House: Stories is a collection of short fiction submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the MFA. Each story stands on its own and features a unique protagonist, but some commonalities in theme and subject matter...
Taking Flight: Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad closely examines Caribbean women's prose fiction published from 1959 to 2011. This project illustrates the power of the diasporic voice. This study explores how flight serves as a...
This novel attempts to marry the aesthetics of grit lit with the elements of noir crime-novels and -films. Set against the backdrop of one of our country's first Civil Rights demonstrations—the Biloxi beach wade-in, Easter 1959—this...
My dissertation, The Knowing in the Neck: Memoir of a Girlhood in the Glades, is divided into three sections. The genre of this dissertation may be categorized as creative nonfiction, memoir or autobiography, but I feel "memoir" works...
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