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Thesis
Morning Glory
University of West Florida Libraries
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2009
Abstract
My creative nonfiction piece recounts two periods of my life, age five and age eighteen, during which various family members become ill. The distinctive, separate narratives are built around my grandfather's two bouts of cancer. The cancer my grandfather had when I was five was testicular, whereas the cancer he had later in our lives was a form of lung cancer. My grandfather's illness anchors the story though his cancer is secondary to the familial relations affected by the cancer's presence. Occurrences of illness and death, particularly those related to cancer, had struck the family repeatedly for years. It was the family social structure that fractured under the weight of the devastating patriarchal event that my familial connections had strengthened. It is not the subject of cancer, but rather the social relations experienced and handled by the narrator that is the human element of something completely inhuman. Through the use of my multiple narratives, I explore this element and offer it up to the reader's interpretation.
Details
- Title
- Morning Glory
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Contributors
- Jonathan T Fink (Committee Chair) - University of West Florida, EnglishRegina A Sakalarios-Rogers (Committee Member) - University of West Florida, College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 111
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries to digitize and/or display this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380090832306600
- Academic Unit
- English
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida