Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Date

2024

Document Type

Thesis (Access Restricted)

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts

Department

Creative Writing

Committee Chair

Mark Mayer

Committee Member

Kendra Vanderlip

Committee Member

Eric Schlich

Abstract

Honeyblood is a novel that follows murder victim Evangeline James and a cast of like characters that have experienced obscure violence at a cellular level as they explore the shape their lives and personhoods take in a not-too-distant future. My thesis manuscript is a work of thrilling speculative fiction that explores the uses of violence in literature, what it means to be other-than, and who is permitted to express bodily autonomy in our society. In creating my failed utopia of the future, Honeyblood fuses cross-genre elements of literary, science fiction, horror, and Southern gothic to guide readers on a bone-grinding expedition as it examines rape as the original sin and the complexities of the human body as currency in the post-modern world.

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Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest.

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