Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:
Red Glare, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_kilstein_bruce.pdf
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"Red Glare is set in Georgia in 1939. Three protagonists: Clementine Barnes, a Black, female physician recently graduated from medical school; Calvin Taylor, a white, baseball player who has moved from Pennsylvania for his first professional job in the minor leagues; and Jackson Bennet, a white sports reporter for the local newspaper. Due to racial discrimination, Clementine is forced to practice medicine in the back of the cafe run by her mother, who is also a traditional healer....
Dates:
2021
Red years, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_ritchie_robyn.pdf
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"The Red Years is the first of three parts in a full novel. It tells the story of a small Southern town in the time of a serial rapist. In the final years of their adolescence, Marco and Henrietta, prominent children of prominent town officials, find their identity shifted and shaded by the recent attacks. As they both search for the rapist—in the name of recognition, responsibility and revenge—what they find is only the vast empty space that separates who they are and who they want to be."...
Dates:
2017
Refuge(e): Dispatches from the Pediatric Wards, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_jackson_benjamin.pdf
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"In the mid 2010s, my daughter Emma was emergently admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital for what would become a five-month stay. This thesis examines that time as a travelogue, particularly from the point of view as someone seeking refuge. It considers not only the experience of the stay but also the people, places, and power dynamics I encountered during it." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Refugee Heart, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_ebrahim_yussra.pdf
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"This thesis is a political memoir about war, identity, and finding home. The story takes readers through the Iraq War from the eyes of an Iraqi girl living in the United States. I visit five Middle Eastern countries, the five sections of my memoir, over the course of my childhood to stay connected to my roots and my family after having lost loved ones, our homeland, and our sense of self to unimaginable violence. The narrative unfolds with our history and the political and personal...
Dates:
2019
Resaturation, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_puels_raina.pdf
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"Resaturation explores the myriad of ways I confined and shrunk myself in various relationships throughout my life. In fourteen essays, I examine the conditioning of my self-censorship in my relationships with family, friends, roommates, lovers, and my own writing. Eventually, I'm able to understand the consequences of shrinking away parts of myself to accommodate others. Through this examination comes the freedom to celebrate and deliberate on my sexuality, queerness, polyamory, kinks,...
Dates:
2019
River drowns the able swimmer : a memoir, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_eberlein_xujun.pdf
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"Narrates the advances and steps backward for three generations of Chinese women living along the Yangtze River, from the turn of the last century to the 1980s." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Running to Boston : a historical and personal narrative of the marathon, 2013
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Running to Boston explores the marathon from both a historical and personal perspective. The project traces the marathon from its roots in ancient Greece to the Boston Marathon. The personal narrative starts with Miranda's childhood associations with athl
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2013
"Sad Men", 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023summer_wilson_christopher.pdf
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""...the world has become ambiguous...[it] is encroaching and trying to consume everything," says Hayao Miyazaki. The world is ambiguous and we are confused. In the absence of good answers, we must learn to ask better questions. "During childhood when children don't have much power but feel angst," says Miyazaki, "fantasy gives some kind of salvation." Just as children find salvation in fantasy, so too can adults—and no dragons required. The eleven stories in this collection examine the...
Dates:
2023
Sandshadow, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_rossi_tess.pdf
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"Inside Sun Haven, Seraphina is a woman determined to protect those she loves, especially eight-year-old Thea, even if that means relinquishing her freedom to Derix. Derix's final mission for her is a secretive delivery, along with eliminating those he deemed adversaries of Sun Haven. But when Seraphina finds herself shot and fighting to survive, she must decide whether to risk abandoning her mission while navigating who to trust within enemy territory. Sergeant Praxen Amiri harbors a...
Dates:
2023
Say it won't be lonely, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_ebel_alex.pdf
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"'Say It Won’t Be Lonely' offers insight into the life of a gay man whose transformation from nearly celibate to comically oversexed is both clumsy and unexpected. Told in the voice of a pop-culture-obsessed millennial with a staggeringly weak sense of self-awareness, the book uses humor to contrast the intimacy in platonic relationships with the absence of intimacy in casual sex. In addition, the book confronts themes of questioning the valorization of masculinity, the importance of...
Dates:
2018
Sea of doors, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_pailthorpe_jordan.pdf
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"Sea of Doors is a collection of poems that utilizes the form of the video game by using the rules (ethics, diction, perspective) of individual game worlds as the guiding philosophy behind each poem." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Self-Induced Exorcism Inside an Empty House, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_guttmann_graeme.pdf
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"Self-Induced Exorcism Inside an Empty House is a cerebral road trip of poems exploring what it means to leave and be left, both physically – death, the leaving of a lover — and esoterically — what happens to the body and the mind when the things that have kept us stable leave? What happens when we exorcise the things that are holding us back or holding us together? Self-Induced Exorcism explores how grief manifests — how, even before loss, the anticipation of it can shape the way we move...
Dates:
2023
Serving face, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016fall_grabeel_noah.pdf
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"Serving Face explores sexuality, gender identity, and kink culture in a variety of forms, with particular focus on gender play and queer identity...While not every story is overtly sexual in nature, they all touch on important aspects of queer or LGBT+ identity and culture. The characters vary in demographics, gender, sexuality, and race, but they are all unified in how they come to express non-normative sexuality and gender." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Seven Lives of Dinah Ash, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_kaplun_maria.pdf
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"This bildungsroman is about the search for and the meaning of identity, about the essence of culture, and, as any human pursuit, about love and death. Dinah Ash is a Russian Jewish ballerina, who grows up in the late Soviet Union and moves to the U.S. to escape the rising tide of antisemitism as her civilization is collapsing. Having lost her fiancé to the Afghanistan war and her grandmother to lymphoma, she is alone in a strange land, soon to discover she is losing ballet, too, to...
Dates:
2019
Signaling Earth and Other Stories of Failed Heroines, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_manley_courtney.pdf
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"Signaling Earth and Other Stories of Failed Heroines' is a literary short story collection that spans a wide range of genres from fabulist to contemporary realism. While varied in subject matter and content, the collection as a whole explores what it means for young queer women to grow up in a world inhospitable to them. The collection breaks down and explores themes of love, acceptance, and hope through the lens of race, sexuality, and gender." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Skating backward, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_turner_andrea.pdf
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"From 'daddy's girl' to 'daddy issues' the journey to forgiveness and understanding is the road less traveled by, but the road the author takes nonetheless. It's messy and complicated, she comes to find, just the way she likes it. Sometimes that which we fear the most is what sets us free. Abused and broken, she looks in all the wrong places to make herself whole again. When she finds the answer, that had been there all along, she must find a way to forgive and accept in order to move on."...
Dates:
2015
Small Spaces, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_vestuto_jessica.pdf
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"The essays in this collection reflect on my experiences in small spaces—from a closet-sized studio apartment, to the passenger seat of my father's car, to a windowless room in an electrolysis treatment center, to a single pew in a church, and more. In these spaces, I explore times when I have felt distant to people who are very close to me and close to people who I have never met. I also question whether places retain the memories of the people who occupied them, and whether this memory can...
Dates:
2021
Smart Girls, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_davis_kirby.pdf
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"With my essay collection "Smart Girls," I aimed to explore issues that I have personally encountered in my life that I've noticed are not in any way unique to me. I wanted to write openly about what it's like to deal with clinical depression, the loss of a loved one, religious conflict in families, and simply exist as a young woman in the twenty-first century. It was my goal when writing these essays to provide insight especially into navigating one's early- to mid-twenties while suffering...
Dates:
2023
Sobering, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_marshall_alyssa.pdf
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"Sobering is a collection of personal essays that span the Nineties to present day 2021. It's a conversation about culture, the things that shape us, the biases we come to hold and how we learn (or don't) to let them go. It traverses shame, trauma, addiction, and self-delusion, while navigating the repercussions of a difficult coming-of-age. Essays touch on subjects ranging from a pop culture icon ("of course we had a hand in Britney's suffering"), to an examination of substance abuse and...
Dates:
2021
Soloist: Essays on Isolation, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_feltner_kerry.pdf
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"The essays in this collection are an exploration of isolation and how it can manifest throughout a life. Each essay offers an attempt to figure out what it means to be lonely and to self-isolate while also recognizing the drawbacks of not engaging with others or the wider world. Each essay is a look at how to find a balance between the giving of oneself to others and the protection of oneself from others and all the ways that paradox is made more complicated. The essays range in topic from...
Dates:
2020