Browsing by Subject "memoir"

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    Firebird
    (2025-04-01) Allen, Justin D.
    Firebird, Justin’s most recent work, confronts the fallibility of memory and the deeply human behaviors caused by the loss of a loved one. In this case, the work finds an entry point to talk about these themes through the loss of Justin’s dad to melanoma in 2009. The work examines how the ripple of his dad’s life continues to reach out in curious and unexpected ways. Using an unlikely entry point (the scientific study of the cosmos) and a playful sense of humor, Justin begins to unravel what happens to the mind and body when it encounters such heavy loss. From this central point, the work expands in many directions and asks questions such as: What stories are we supposed to tell about our loved ones who have passed? What is the role of our loved ones' possessions after they've gone? Why does loss feel so different to every person? What does it mean to carry on a "legacy"?
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    Just Trash
    (2020-05) Campbell, Ashley
    Just Trash is a creative dissertation comprised of four personal essays that take on various questions of identity and empathy that arise when a non-binary bisexual woman grows up in a Southern evangelical, working-class home, an environment that is politically, religiously, regionally, and culturally so different from the one I currently inhabit. It also contains a scholarly introduction that explores the purpose of the memoir as a whole, as well as its origins; the functions and import of each chapter and the place of my memoir within the larger genre through looking at four key types of memoir with which it is in conversation: Southern memoir, trauma memoir, religious memoir, and queer memoir.