UMD Theses and Dissertations

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New submissions to the thesis/dissertation collections are added automatically as they are received from the Graduate School. Currently, the Graduate School deposits all theses and dissertations from a given semester after the official graduation date. This means that there may be up to a 4 month delay in the appearance of a given thesis/dissertation in DRUM.

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    The Hunting Ground and Other Stories
    (2018) De Bel, Heather Nicole; Casey, Maud; English Language and Literature; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The Hunting Ground and Other Stories is a collection exploring themes of addiction, love and class within the landscape of New Jersey, the wilderness of Alaska, or the Adirondack Mountains. All characters had their formative years in the suburbs of New Jersey and this manifests itself in unexpected ways. The characters in these stories are second or third generation Dutch immigrants who struggle with their conservative and religious culture both inwardly and in their daily interactions with those around them. Whether the stories are about two estranged sisters who must interact with each other after a tragedy, a recovering alcoholic who babysits the child of the married man she loves, or two young sisters who are navigating childhood in the Adirondacks while taking care of their alcoholic Aunt, each story explores the difficulties of addiction amidst a conservative and religious culture that doesn’t have the words to start a conversation.
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    The Green Coolness and Shelter of Leaves: Poems
    (2007-05-06) Heck, April Naoko; Arnold, Elizabeth; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This collection of plain-spoken, free verse poems is primarily a means of knowing and remembering two late family members. The first section is a series of poems tracing the steps of my Japanese great-grandmother, Obaasan, as a Hiroshima survivor. Through research, conversations with family, and imagination, the poems in part interweave a narrative with the process of discovering this narrative. The short, bridging second section consists of poems that deepen concerns about the body's vulnerabilities, and suggest physical experience as one way of relating. In the third section--traveling from east to west, from distant to recent past--a series of poems uncovers a childhood of both nurturance and instability, complicated by economic hardship, issues of identity, and my father's addictions and sudden passing.