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There is No Absolution for Us Here: An Anthology of Essays
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)
An anthology of creative nonfiction essays, this collection studies the inner workings of
the author at her most vulnerable: whether as a child unaware of her parents’ crumbling marriage
or as an adolescent struggling ...
Assembling the Fragments: A Collection of Essays
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)
Grief and grieving hovers around this essay collection, both the author's grief over
losing her mother and also what that loss meant to the other people in her life. An essay
about the tragic death of the author's uncle- ...
Stealing Fire
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)
The poems that make up this collection tend to play with what is one of the oldest
concepts to exist, transition. This collection attempts to demonstrate the experiences that
generate the pressures required; such as light ...
You People: A Collection of Stories and Essays
(2015-08-11)
Wichita Barren
(2015)
On the surface, Ramey Stewart has it all. She is married to
the most powerful man in Wichita; she is beautiful and rich
beyond the dream of avarice. But there is one thing missing from
her perfect life: children. After she ...
"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(2015-06-19)
Throughout the nineteenth century, Creole women were consistently idealized,
exoticized, and demonized in literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. While
the term Creole is still hotly contested even today, ...
Sandoz Writing (Righting) History
(2015-06-19)
Mari Sandoz’s dedication to her research topics, personality, candor, and work ethic allowed her an intimate place alongside those she chose to write about. This yielded a moving written product. In the same way that Sandoz ...
Road/Map/Canvas
(2015-07-28)
The poems in this thesis explore the connection between
imagination, space and belonging. Actual landscapes provoke
imaginative responses. A small town in South Peru becomes the
focus of desire, belonging and nostalgia. ...
Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
(2015)
This dissertation probes medieval sources to identify how and why women made transformative
choices in their own lives and analyzes the consequences of those choices. The major case study
investigates the life of Marie ...
No Place Like Home
(2015-06-02)
This collection of stories portrays a variety of lives dealing the aftereffects of loss. In “Robert the
Lionheart” a boy seeks the DNA of his parents to recreate them and struggles with what that
might mean. In “Weeds” ...
The Medical Record
(2015-07-28)
A collection of personal essays, “The Medical Record” is an exploration of my life in
medicine. It has three primary goals. First, to portray an accurate account of my training and
practice as a female physician, with ...
From Revolution To Ruin: A Preliminary Look at Rwanda’s First Two Presidents, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal Habyarimana, and Their Administrations
(2015)
This paper brings together primary and secondary materials from a vast number of sources
related to the first two presidents of Rwanda, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal
Habyarimana, in a preliminary look at the men and ...