Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Tara, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_somani_prerna dilip.pdf
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"Badrang is creative reinterpretation of the legend of Panchkanya, as mentioned in a Sanskrit shloka of obscure origins. This is how it goes: ahalyā draupadī kunti tārā mandodarī tathā । pañcakanyāḥ smarennityaṃ mahāpātakanāśinīḥ ॥ (Ahalya, Draupadi, Kunti, Tara and Mandodari One should forever remember the Panchakanya who are the destroyers of great sins)
Three of these women, Ahalya, Tara, and Mandodari are mentioned in the Ramayana, while Kunti and Draupadi are heroines in the epic of...
Dates:
2019
Ten Essays, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_viehman_morgan.pdf
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"'Ten Essays' is a collection of narrative and memoir essays that explores what happens after a family fractures. Beginning with her mother's obsession with restoring old houses and the aftermath of her father's abrupt departure, the narrator examines both herself and her family through the lens of repeating patterns, unexpected symbols, and inherited dysfunction. In an honest portrait of her family, the narrator traces pivotal moments in her rural childhood, discovering truths hidden in the...
Dates:
2019
That Uninspired Sort of Way, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_freeman_jade.pdf
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"This collection of short stories and flash are the best I've written during my graduate education at Emerson College. These stories follow a style distinctly my own, examining the human condition of individuals in their 20s. The men and women represented in these stories are adrift, not successful or happy, and are living inconsolable lives: a man starts digging to China to find his estranged wife, a young woman tries to find solace by accosting her favorite musician, a filmmaker attributes...
Dates:
2016
The Art of Chinese Paper Folding, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_chao_michael.pdf
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"This thesis investigates relationships between identity, mental health, and familial dynamics through the lens of growing up a mixed race Chinese-American. Both lyric and prosaic forms are used to explore how the act of remembering folds image and emotion together, becoming what we carry as memory, shaping our sense of self. The title is borrowed from a mid-20th century book on Chinese paper folding, which provided a framework for the construction of the collection. The act of folding paper...
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2021
The Body is Black, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_crocker_kristin.pdf
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""The Body is Black" is a memoir that follows the life of Kristin Crocker, a young, biracial woman who struggles with her personal identity in the face of familial turmoil. Kristin always felt she was different from other people, but it wasn't until her parents' divorce, her aunt's estrangement with her, and the 2016 presidential election, all of which happened concurrently, that she started to understand who she was. In a world founded on binaries and labels which limit people's personal...
Dates:
2022
The Bone Maker, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_cliff_tanya.pdf
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"When eleven-year-old Max, a brilliant boy with serious physical handicaps, and his best friend, Tucker, drag a bone out of the Lindenwood Forest, they unearth a twenty- year-old crime and set off a chain of events that threaten their lives. In their often- swashbuckling misadventures, they are joined by Max's cousin, Isabella, a Black teen from Detroit who's hiding secrets of her own, and Max's uncle, Jordan, charismatic ringleader for the family circus. Complicating matters, the body of an...
Dates:
2023
The book of strange migrations, 2021
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Identifier: wr_2021fall_haneyjardine_richard.pdf
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"Throughout the five mirror sequences of "the book of strange migrations"—each about different types of exile—I explore and explode traditional forms, particularly sonnets. The first sequence—thirteen poems—examines emerging gay sexuality (darkened by childhood abuse) and sexual maturation (against the backdrop of the AIDS pandemic's worst years). The second—eleven sonnets—traces a relationship that persists despite disappointments, deceits, and separations. The third sequence—fifteen...
Dates:
2021
The boots, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_noto_joseph.pdf
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"This collection of poems focuses on letter poems to a variety of people in my life. In between these letter poems there are a different blend of poems that offer a glimpse into the life of the writer. This work offers a well-balanced mix of emotional urgency and interior monologue. Often, my work involves details of what it is like living with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and this work is no different. The poems that are not letter poems often offer an inside view of the...
Dates:
2023
The Braid, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_baron_gabriela.pdf
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"This thesis explores threads of identity, weaving together influences that shape the sense of self, including ancestry, childhood, culture, and religion. These themes spread across three sections; "on a loom" is a meditation on interfaith upbringing and the reconciliation of two belief systems, "heirloom" relates to paternal ties, and "bloom" speaks to maternal heritage. The collection highlights two matriarchs and how they lived out their individual cultures (Jewish and Colombian) and...
Dates:
2023
The cockroach collector, 2014
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Story of a man named Martin who collects cockroaches in a box in his basement, and who struggles to forge connections and make sense of his impulses and curiosities.--Abstract.
Dates:
2014
The Colorful Life of Kitty Swan, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_rockefeller_laura.pdf
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"This is a historical novel about one woman's trajectory as an artist during the Age of Revolutions. As a young woman coming of age in Boston in 1800, Kitty Swan is aware that she is living in a new century in a newly created country. She wants to find a place for herself as an artist in this world. Her path toward achieving this goal is blocked by the plans of her strong-willed mother, Hepzibah Swan, who is adamant that all of her children must marry well to secure the family's finances,...
Dates:
2021
The Day Lilies, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fitzpatrick_mikaela.pdf
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"The Day Lilies is a collection that weaves intimate poems about family, romantic relationships, nature, and mysticism to illustrate what it means to venture away from a world of familiarity to embrace the unknown. Moving from the countryside of Pennsylvania to the cityscape of Boston thrusted me out of my comfort zone and opened me up to experiences I would've never been able to imagine before. Daylilies have taught me that it's possible to thrive wherever you are planted. This collection...
Dates:
2023
The edge of the ocean, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_teczar_sarah.pdf
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"The first 101 pages of a literary fiction novel, a coming-of-age story which is meant to explore feminist issues via the protagonist, Carla, and her behavior, experiences, and misadventures in a foreign country. In the midst of isolation and an encroaching depression, Carla pursues relationships with a few different men and discovers the difference between love and possession, and what it means to be a woman in a world full of double standards. Any tenuous friendships she has formed with...
Dates:
2018
The First of Them, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_snow_jennifer.pdf
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"The First of Them is a horror-themed science-fantasy fiction novel centered around a trans woman and her estranged twin brother. After strange happenings bring them back together, Collette and her brother Ethan must find out what connections lie between a psychologically deteriorating hospital patient and a missing USGS researcher as they deal with their own personal traumas, sibling rivalry, uncommon seismic events, and apparent paranormal unknowns. In the end, ties that bond them together...
Dates:
2023
The Fountain of Youth (A Novel), 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_zolfonoon_wesline.pdf
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"The year is 2078 and Mozaik Hayes has just begun his position at REbirth, a company devoted to individual beauty as well as the growth of family through the use of birthing pods. Mozaik is the first of second-tier citizen to ever work at such a prestigious company, and he is the first to ever uncover something so terribly earth-shattering with in it. Mozaik must now decide if he should reveal his discovery to the people he trusts the most or keep what he has seen to himself and pretend...
Dates:
2019
The Fox Merchant, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_benz_allison.pdf
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"This fantasy novel centers around Sionnach, a cursed fox god of trade, and Maia, a deaf mage snatched from her homeland as a child. After ten years of servitude, Maia secretly learns magic and escapes onboard Sionnach's wagon. He soon discovers that her deafness makes her immune to his manipulative powers. The two set off on their journey, suspicious of one another and unable to communicate. But when Sionnach saves Maia's life, their relationship changes. Maia demands that Sionnach take her...
Dates:
2020
The Fruit You'll Never See, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_nastasia_gail.pdf
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"'The Fruit You'll Never See' is the story of how I—a girl who grew up with a heroin-addicted mother, an aunt who knew men that paid for sex with young girls, and around people for whom crime was the most familiar way of life—moved on to become a criminal defense lawyer. After years of being caught between the two worlds of who I was and who I wanted to be, I came to understand that I belong fully to both." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
The Great Saving, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022fall_amico_madilyn.pdf
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"The Great Saving is a heart-wrenching true story from the perspective of a young girl who realizes her parents are addicted to drugs. Madilyn and her siblings endure abuse, neglect, and trauma beyond measure. They're forced to grow up and raise each other, keep their parents' addiction a secret, and suffer silently and alone in rural North Carolina. Madilyn and her siblings can't help but anticipate the deaths of their parents or their own. But when her baby brother is born addicted to...
Dates:
2022
The Hands of Virtue, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_yeh_katherine.pdf
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"The Hands of Virtue is the first novel in a three-part series that follows three point of view characters in the wake of two world-ending catastrophes. Each character struggles to carve out their own sense of livelihood: Edie to keep her family together and alive, Haig to excel in a new job, and Mikhail to move on after trauma. The setting of a matriarchal society challenges conceptions of gender roles and adds pressure to the difficulties each character faces. The novel explores themes of...
Dates:
2021
The harmless things, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_haggard_kit.pdf
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"The stories in this collection seek to represent what is already surreal—loss, womanhood, queerness—by distorting the familiar. These characters come uncoupled from their lives in various ways, which force them to examine absences, relationships, acts of violence, and familial connections. Fabulist elements call attention to this process of evaluation, collapsing the distance between what is internal and what is external." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018