DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/0SFX-WW69
Defense Date
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Harrison C. Fletcher
Second Advisor
Tom De Haven
Third Advisor
Dennis Danvers
Fourth Advisor
n/a
Fifth Advisor
n/a
Sixth Advisor
n/a
Abstract
These stories, essays, and beginnings of a novel draft examine the complex, many-faceted nature of legacy; propelled by the question of how we become who we eventually become, these works seek to showcase how where we come from, and who we come from, shape us as individuals. From a variety of perspectives, my characters try to discover how they can create their own safe spaces, their own lives, while still maintaining some genuine connection to their familial roots--they try to strike a balance between how to forget, and how to remember. The prose here focuses largely on the women in the places, and from these families; how does a society that favors maleness shape a female's view of her ideas and her intellect, of her body and her control over it? The characters seek answers to these questions largely in the impoverished southwest, where the characters are always trying to do the right thing, but hardly ever in the right ways.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-5-2015
Included in
Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Women's Studies Commons