Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Date

2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts

Department

English

Committee Chair

Mark Mayer

Committee Member

Eric Schlich

Committee Member

Courtney Miller Santo

Abstract

The stories in this manuscript are populated with men and women laborers who grind and hustle their way through life and relationships. The particular interest of this collection is to examine how women navigate communities that honor masculine work and disregard feminine work and how these women respond to, give in to, or resist standards of masculine and feminine work. These stories are written in a third-person point of view with special attention to the voice of the narrator to investigate the storytelling traditions of rural communities, particularly storytelling that happens on the job. The treatment of voice in this collection is an exploration of how storytelling creates histories that shape and reshape morality and the individual’s sense of self.

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Data is provided by the student

Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest.

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