Life

Overview "Daddy's Little Girl is a collection of poems that moves through the speaker's grief—for their father, for the time before the speaker's own conception, and for the premature end of childhood. Grappling with identity as a pre-determined condition, these poems center cultural scripts and ideologies, assigned gender, socioeconomic status, and familial legacy, reaching beyond the fixed nature of the speaker's geographic locality and toward the immobility of girlhood in a fatherless, patriarchal...

Overview "Goodnight, Chandrama is a collection of poetry that aims to weave the tale of a Trinidadian-American poet who constantly finds himself in a nebulous space between two cultures. At first, it explores what life is like through the eyes of teenagedom and young adulthood; a sense of "is this all that I am?" The poems work through thoughts of suicide, of loneliness, one of Caribbean mythology, and of innocence, long lost. They aim to capture and question the lives that surround the poet as well,...

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"This thesis is a collection of five stories that contemplate themes of identity and belonging, often in the context of complex family or relationship dynamics. These stories usually focus around protagonists at a crucial, often vulnerable, point in their lives, making many of these stories "coming of age" works." -- Abstract

Overview "The story takes place in nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties Morocco. The protagonist, Ayur, is a miraculous child who survives a severe elephantiasis. He and his family encounter many hurdles and obstacles throughout his childhood and journey to recovery. She, a mysterious creature, that follows Ayur everywhere ever since his birth, is despised, feared, admired, and blamed by Ayur's mother who obsesses over her baby especially when he falls ill. Rabab, the mother, who recounts the...

Overview "This master thesis aims to portray the nature of human life in light of our modern capitalistic world. Ego has been running amok on Earth—via Human Consciousness—for a few thousand years, which has led to disconnection and destruction on all levels: human to human, human to fellow animal, human to Mother Earth. However, there is hope for harmony, for this planet and all of its creatures to return to a state of Heaven again. Across three sections, entitled (1) a long-drawn sidewalk, (2)...