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Leavetakings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is a collection of lyric essays about northern sorrows and friendships. These are preceded by a Critical Introduction which offers a ...
Border crossings, identities, and creative nonfiction : Haitian travel guides and writing about Haiti
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
In my thesis, I explore the practice of travel writing by examining four separate travel guides. I ask how writing about travel, including my own creative writing about Haiti, interacts with issues of identity, the \"other,\" ...
This way back : essays from Cyprus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This Way Back is a creative dissertation that explores the predicament of the transmigrant, the immigrant who has the capability of returning to the ...
My hands, remembering
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Lauren Fath's nonfiction writing uses handicraft as an entree to examining familial history and the inheritance of objects. Each essay in her collection ...
The pagan's progress, or, the invention of pilgrimage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This book examines religious travel in contemporary Paganism in three long-form creative essays. It looks at space, place, and travel within the modern ...
Katrina's other disaster : examining second disaster literature and placing post-Katrina New Orleans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis examines the literary treatment of the time period following major natural and manmade disasters known as the "second disaster," which this ...