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- Title
- ALL RETURN.
- Creator
- Rodriguez, Juan Alonso Romero, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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All Return is a short story collection centered on nostalgia, and the desire of going back to a place or time, which sometimes doesn’t exist anymore. The characters that populate the collection, are all returning or trying to go back, either to a physical place, a language, to an age of innocence, or to loved ones. While the book tries to portray stories of immigrant lives in parts of collection, the desire of immigrants to sometimes return to their countries of origin are not exclusive to...
Show moreAll Return is a short story collection centered on nostalgia, and the desire of going back to a place or time, which sometimes doesn’t exist anymore. The characters that populate the collection, are all returning or trying to go back, either to a physical place, a language, to an age of innocence, or to loved ones. While the book tries to portray stories of immigrant lives in parts of collection, the desire of immigrants to sometimes return to their countries of origin are not exclusive to them, but universal. The stories in All Return remind us that we are all going back, or long for a place or time that exists without us.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014103
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, Creative writing, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Between Us and All.
- Creator
- Davidheiser, Caitlyn, Papatya Bucak, Ayse, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Between Us and All is a collection of fictional stories addressing themes of gender, religion, family, class, and sexuality. A portion of this manuscript is a linked collection of short stories, following the fictional Kelly/Sullivan family through their daily lives in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania.
- Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013196
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, Fiction, Themes
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Enclaves.
- Creator
- Piesco, Justin, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Enclaves is a fiction novel set on an Earth ravaged by climate change and follows characters trying to find meaning in a life constantly threatened by weather. It addresses themes of adventure, death, competition, and capitalistic consequence.
- Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013833
- Subject Headings
- Fiction, Novel
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- FORCE RIPE.
- Creator
- Shand, Janine Ariel, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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At any moment, a time comes where young women see their mothers outside of their motherly presence. Viewing them as a person beyond what they have done and accomplished beyond their offspring. What could be worse is the young woman sees and considers the realities and decisions her mother - this woman - has made and disagrees with them. It is a difficult place to be, in a position as a young woman and seeing the future laid before you embodied in the mother figure. The daughter can choose to...
Show moreAt any moment, a time comes where young women see their mothers outside of their motherly presence. Viewing them as a person beyond what they have done and accomplished beyond their offspring. What could be worse is the young woman sees and considers the realities and decisions her mother - this woman - has made and disagrees with them. It is a difficult place to be, in a position as a young woman and seeing the future laid before you embodied in the mother figure. The daughter can choose to push back and turn against the mother’s role and the woman she knows her mother to be; in order to terminate this prophesied future. Yet, there is promise if the daughter is somehow able to toss this image of the future aside, along with her ego to embrace her mother as a woman and not as an embodiment of the fear of an unknowable future.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013413
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Fiction, Mothers and daughters
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Inheritance.
- Creator
- Rowland, Natalie K., Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis is a second draft of a novel about an orphaned girl and boy, Kate and Penn, who befriend one another on a Midwestern college campus and discover belonging and a sense of self, as well as a fantastical quality they both possess called Influence. The story explores themes of family, friendship, community, fear culture, and adult identity.
- Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005997
- Subject Headings
- Novels, Fiction, Creative writing
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Locust, Emerge.
- Creator
- Wilson, Jason M., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Locust, Emerge follows Hyatt Wrinkler, a twenty-nine year old do-nothing with growing anxieties about his world and his orientation in it. Though resistant to change, the landscape of his world is shifting around him, whether he's ready for that change or not. Over the course of a day, which the narrative follows him through the places he goes and people he comes into contact with, he must choose to either joining the world that has been spinning uninhibited during his self-imposed exile, or...
Show moreLocust, Emerge follows Hyatt Wrinkler, a twenty-nine year old do-nothing with growing anxieties about his world and his orientation in it. Though resistant to change, the landscape of his world is shifting around him, whether he's ready for that change or not. Over the course of a day, which the narrative follows him through the places he goes and people he comes into contact with, he must choose to either joining the world that has been spinning uninhibited during his self-imposed exile, or join it and endure the pain and frustrations that come with that admission.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013280
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Out of the ever after and other stories.
- Creator
- Amadori-Segree, Claudia., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Out of the Ever After and Other Stories is a collection of language-driven stories set in different parts of the world and thematically linked, comprising realist narratives and magical realism. The trope that unifies this collection is that of the journey. The characters go on journeys, whether real or metaphorical. Many are lost at the beginning, but they find themselves in the end; others remain lost, but have a better understanding of their condition in the world. Although diverse in...
Show moreOut of the Ever After and Other Stories is a collection of language-driven stories set in different parts of the world and thematically linked, comprising realist narratives and magical realism. The trope that unifies this collection is that of the journey. The characters go on journeys, whether real or metaphorical. Many are lost at the beginning, but they find themselves in the end; others remain lost, but have a better understanding of their condition in the world. Although diverse in nationality, cultural background and gender, the characters in the eight stories share the need to find a lasting identity and a home-place to return to, whether physically or psychologically. The collection alternates magical and realist plots, male and female narrators, points of view, and diverse settings to create variety and a multicultural, hybrid and hyphenated experience. Some stories experiment with language; others have a more traditional mood, akin to fairytales.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77641
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, Collections, Short stories, Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Fiction, Technique
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Rat Mouth.
- Creator
- Baker, Aiden, Bucak, Ayşe Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Rat Mouth is a collection of fictional stories that speak to the absurdity of girlhood. These stories focus on the precarious situations women are put into when their physical bodies are valued more than their internal lives.
- Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013734
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE DREAMS OF GODS.
- Creator
- Wilson, Benjamin, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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The Dreams of Gods is a surreal-realist novel that follows a grieving man in the wake of his wife’s death through a strange conspiracy that seems to bend reality around him, forcing him on a curious odyssey of self-discovery, eventually leading to understanding as he learns how to come to terms with himself and the world around him. It is an exploration of the many faces of god and the universe, as well as humanity's place within it all. Inventive and energetic, the hairbrained plot takes the...
Show moreThe Dreams of Gods is a surreal-realist novel that follows a grieving man in the wake of his wife’s death through a strange conspiracy that seems to bend reality around him, forcing him on a curious odyssey of self-discovery, eventually leading to understanding as he learns how to come to terms with himself and the world around him. It is an exploration of the many faces of god and the universe, as well as humanity's place within it all. Inventive and energetic, the hairbrained plot takes the reader deep into a world that becomes more bizarre with each page, while fantastical characters pop in and out of the story in shocking and comical ways and nothing is quite what it seems.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013711
- Subject Headings
- Novels, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Marvelous Garden of Marcel Verdell.
- Creator
- Martin, Colton, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis/novel, The Marvelous Garden of Marcel Verdell, follows the fictional story of one local government bureaucrat, Jude Wintertour, into the irregular and viridescent town of Garden, wherein he encounters the titular gardener, Marcel Verdell, and, along with a host of other residents, confronts the oppressive, convoluted past, envisions a hopeful future, and lives with the consequences of the blindsight-choices of the present.
- Date Issued
- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013583
- Subject Headings
- Fiction, Novels
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- This American Bizarre.
- Creator
- Sword, Adam, Papatya Bucak, Ayse, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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This is a collection of fiction that draws on the author’s own experiences as a western foreigner in America, while also taking inspiration from many different art forms and their depictions of American life, as experienced by outsiders. The themes of this collection center around the discord and disparity prevalent between British and American life. The other key theme in this collection is how violence seems to be simmering, always near at hand, in a country like America. In this way, many...
Show moreThis is a collection of fiction that draws on the author’s own experiences as a western foreigner in America, while also taking inspiration from many different art forms and their depictions of American life, as experienced by outsiders. The themes of this collection center around the discord and disparity prevalent between British and American life. The other key theme in this collection is how violence seems to be simmering, always near at hand, in a country like America. In this way, many of the stories allude to a kind of violence taken to be something unique to American society, which often goes unrealized or unacted upon, or sometimes unravels accordingly. The thesis project itself considers how these stories could only take place in America today, and how the aforementioned cultural discord, or disharmony, connects the narratives with a shared feeling of cultural commentary about the country as a whole.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013267
- Subject Headings
- Fiction, Short stories, American society and culture
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- This Kind of Trouble.
- Creator
- Eze, Tobechukwu, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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The story, This Kind of Trouble, follows the life of its protagonists, Margaret, a 65-year-old woman living with schizoaffective-disorder in 2012 Nigeria, and her estranged husband, Benjamin, a White presenting man born to mixed raced father. Although Margaret exudes class privilege, she pursues in her retired years a kind of desperate anonymity, often complicated by echoes of her past: an ex-husband, and the haunted past of an unforgivable crime from which they must now seek absolution....
Show moreThe story, This Kind of Trouble, follows the life of its protagonists, Margaret, a 65-year-old woman living with schizoaffective-disorder in 2012 Nigeria, and her estranged husband, Benjamin, a White presenting man born to mixed raced father. Although Margaret exudes class privilege, she pursues in her retired years a kind of desperate anonymity, often complicated by echoes of her past: an ex-husband, and the haunted past of an unforgivable crime from which they must now seek absolution. Indeed, the story attempts to invert the discourse on illness and assimilation, as well as on race and citizenship. It does this by tackling the themes of colonialism, cultural identity, and the formulations of the Immigrant v Expatriate trope. Essentially, through this work I ask two critical questions: how has colonial mental constructs travelled over time, and how does a person become Black in the global Western imaginary?
Show less - Date Issued
- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013888
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, Fiction, Creative writing
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Through a Glass Darkly.
- Creator
- White, Emily E., Bucak, A. Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Through a Glass Darkly is about grief, ghosts, monsters, and mothers. To be more specific, it is a haunted story about the silencing of women, particularly female authors. Its roots draw inspiration from a darker version of Mary Shelley, and the lives of female authors before and after her. While researching Evelyn Buchanan, a socialite from the nineteenth century, Ophelia Williams becomes infected by an otherworldly house with a history. As her narrative intertwines with the fragmented...
Show moreThrough a Glass Darkly is about grief, ghosts, monsters, and mothers. To be more specific, it is a haunted story about the silencing of women, particularly female authors. Its roots draw inspiration from a darker version of Mary Shelley, and the lives of female authors before and after her. While researching Evelyn Buchanan, a socialite from the nineteenth century, Ophelia Williams becomes infected by an otherworldly house with a history. As her narrative intertwines with the fragmented findings of Evelyn and Evelyn’s mysteriously stolen novel, Ophelia experiences postpartum psychosis, brought on by her own complicated family history and personal trauma. Together, Ophelia and her ghosts work to unsilence Evelyn Buchannan. To do this, she and they must rise above their own versions of grief, or what time has painted as monstrous hysteria.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013581
- Subject Headings
- Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- YOU CAN STILL FALL IN LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
- Creator
- Buijk, Cherri, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013464
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)