A Family Apart

dc.contributor.advisor	Pankey, Eric
dc.contributor.author	Porter, Kirsten
dc.creator	Porter, Kirsten
dc.date	2013-05-02
dc.date.accessioned	2013-09-13T15:34:23Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-13T06:35:27Z
dc.date.issued	2013-09-13
dc.description.abstract	The poems in this autobiographical collection explore the brokenness of family. I asked myself what does it mean to be a part of a family, to live in a family that is broken apart? I began this project with the belief that much of my material would take on the difficult task of writing about trauma that created fracture in my own family’s make-up. Marital separation, abuse, illness, death; these struggles seemed to be the cause of my family’s brokenness. Yet, what I found as I wrote was that trauma itself is not really responsible for the dysfunction in a family. It is in the aftermath of a crisis when individuals in a family must decide how to deal with the offending issues and interact with one another that will determine if the family will survive the breakage. My poems probe the individual relationships within my family under the strain of fracture.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1920/8486
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject	Family
dc.subject	Brokenness
dc.subject	Trauma
dc.subject	Relationships
dc.subject	Autobiography
dc.subject	Healing
dc.title	A Family Apart
dc.type	Thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Creative Writing
thesis.degree.grantor	George Mason University
thesis.degree.level	Master's
thesis.degree.name	Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

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