The Art of Boiling Water
dc.contributor.advisor | Mori, Kyoko | |
dc.creator | Fitzpatrick, Rosemarie | |
dc.date | 2022-05-02 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-19T12:48:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-06-19T12:48:31Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis is a memoir, told in the form of a series of personal essays that examine how love and loyalty exist alongside abuse and misunderstanding in the narrator’s family. The narrator explores her own vulnerability and culpability and is sustained by her love for writing as well as her love for the natural world. Alongside the family narrative are accounts of the narrator’s exploration of wild spaces, revealing how families and ecosystems are vulnerable to contamination: just as water and soil can be polluted by toxins, or animals killed by human carelessness, so too families can be poisoned and broken by a history of physical and emotional abuse. | |
dc.description.note | This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years. It will not be available until May 2032 at the earliest. | |
dc.format.medium | masters theses | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1920/13356 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.rights | Copyright 2022 Rosemarie Fitzpatrick | |
dc.rights.uri | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0 | |
dc.subject.keywords | Memoir | |
dc.subject.keywords | Domestic abuse | |
dc.subject.keywords | Death and loss | |
dc.subject.keywords | Personal essay | |
dc.subject.keywords | Nature | |
dc.subject.keywords | Ecology | |
dc.title | The Art of Boiling Water | |
dc.type | Text | |
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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