Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:
Beside the Wine Dark Sea, 2021
Between Deaths, 2021
Beyond the Horizon, 2020
Big Time Tief, 2021
"This thesis is a collection of fictional stories linking together the brokenheartedness of locational displacement. The stories closely follow characters toggling back and forth between a past they once knew and a present they will never belong to. These stories explore central themes of the American Dream concerning Caribbean migration, isolation, and assimilation, all present in the landscape that is the American society." -- Abstract
Black Sea by the handful, 2017
Blade mouth, 2017
"Blade Mouth works to negotiate how the complexities of conflict can manifest into the kind of pressure that breaks and, maybe, the kind of pressure that purifies." --Abstract.
Blue Basin, 2017
"A novel about the impossible project of the African diaspora, and about how Black women and femmes persist in making and re-making this diaspora, regardless of the cycles of dispossession and violence stretching from the dawn colonialism into our present. The narrative unfolds on Blue Basin Island, a location that blends aspects of folklore, cosmology and physical space from Ghana's Volta Region, Haiti, and Louisiana, specifically New Orleans." --Abstract.
Blue house and other stories, 2016
"This collection of short stories uses gothic elements to explore human nature from a woman's perspective. At times melancholy, at times mysterious, the writer negotiates timeless subjects: strained family dynamics, old age, heartache, love, and loss." --Abstract.
Blue like Neptune and other stories, 2016
"A playful exploration of potential where personal experiences have been articulated and processed, in stories that stretch from the mundane to the magical." --Abstract.
Bob Dylan approximately, 2017
"Bob Dylan Approximately traces a project I undertook in 2016 to listen to every Bob Dylan album in chronological order. Parts music criticism, immersion journalism, personal essay, memoir, and biography, this thesis leverages my experiences to better understand and appreciate Dylan's life and music; as a result, I come to better understand my own roots as a Dylan fanatic." --Abstract.
Body to self, 2012
Body to Self recounts the author's struggle to come to terms with the facets and repercussions of loss--namely, the death of her mother during childhood and the feelings of rootlessness and discontent that follow. Section I is anchored in conflicted attac
Bodysuits, 2015
"Bodysuits, a linked short story collection in progress, explores how influences such as food, dance, cultural mores, and relationships can shape body image, and how body image can inform sexuality, self-love, and self-loathing. All of the stories feature characters connected by blood or happenstance." --Abstract.
Boomerang, 2014
Break My Fall, 2019
Broken Little Beauties, 2020
Buttercup, 2023
Buttercup, 2020
By My Own Hand: A Master's Poetry Manuscript, 2022
"This thesis project is a 40-page poetry manuscript written largely in free verse. The poems focus on relationships in all forms—family, friends, lovers—, gender issues, evangelical faith reckoning, and the natural world. Throughout the collection the speaker grapples with finding and exercising their voice." -- Abstract
Bystander, 2016
"The poems in Bystander hold the private spaces in our lives up to the light. This examination yields a reconsideration of what we assume mundane, but also shows us the things we thought were solid are perhaps fluid--perhaps a mirage. Relationships between people and objects are explored, as well as the relationship among the mind, the body and consciousness that can elude us all." --Abstract.