http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2766 2013-05-25T20:50:45Z http://hdl.handle.net/1903/13691 Title: New City Authors: Calder, Kimberly Brooke Abstract: This collection is arranged around various themes and instances of loss. In particular, these poems treat the dilemma of the vulnerability of both body and Being to violent forces. Whether the agent is a murderer who takes a human life, or capitalism, which takes life itself from life, the antagonist is confronted and considered with an eye to discovering action--within and outside of the poem--that contains the possibility of transformation. Under the duress of these violent forms, the speaker in these poems fights to discover what can and cannot be recovered. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1903/13687 Title: The Ramparts Sublime: A Novel Authors: Zadig, Heather Marlene Abstract: The prevailing concerns throughout this work of fiction are the questions of <italic>Who is family?</italic> and <italic>Where is home?</italic> It is a narrative which explores questions of identity in the context of modern American cultural mobility, wherein the boundaries of identity have been variously blurred, blended, and occupied by the forces of modernity and globalization. The narrative seeks to examine the usefulness of such boundaries within individual human relationships and, in particular, explores the potential for the blues as an art form to foster human relationships that are familial in nature, not in spite of its historical context but rather because of it. That the narrator himself is uncomfortably self-conscious of his own narration is representative of the novel's preoccupation with the problems of white discourse on race and cultural identity and the limits of language in general in attempts to explore and transcend such issues. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1903/13652 Title: They Don't Know Us Here Authors: DeCarlo, Carolyn Cecelia Abstract: To be human is to be shaped by memory: what is remembered, what is forgotten, and what lies quietly dormant. But what of the unique mind, for whom this balance is upset? The novella <italic>They Don't Know Us Here</italic> imagines a place where David Whelan experiences past and present on a continuous plane. Confined to Ward 12 of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., David's mind soars between life on the ward and memories from before his confinement. But when things change in the present, what is shaken loose in the past? Through looking both inward on David and out to the other men residing on the ward, <italic>They Don't Know Us Here</italic> explores what happens when unquiet minds are confined to bodies that rest. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1903/13651 Title: Absent Without Leave Authors: Yetman, Shanna Abstract: How do you deal with the biology you are born with; the parents you are given; the religion that is handed to you; and the ideologies you inherit? Absent Without Leave is a short story collection that explores the anxiety that erupts when life's natural order fails. The characters in these stories all grapple with someone or something missing in their lives: parents who have chosen work over children, mothers who can't mother, children that never were, and religious beliefs that no longer ring true. There is Olivia Turnbull, a mother, who wonders if her biology has failed her because she cannot bond with her child; Tilda Bond, a ten-year old, who roams the food bank warehouse as her father works to feed the hungry; and Micah Gallivan, a Mormon, who searches for a way to tell his father that he is not going on his mission. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z