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Small Mythologies

Wright, Alicia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467764289

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2016, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, Creative Writing/Poetry.
"Small Mythologies" is a collection that concerns itself with the question of identity-making. This is not limited to the idea of individual identity; poems here address the ideas of community and regional identity as well. It is my claim that a person does not stand on their own or exist only within the context of relationships with others – a person is, whether or not they acknowledge it, a product of a community. Further, a community rarely exists in isolation; I also focus on a sense of regional belonging. In the case of "Small Mythologies," that region is Central Appalachia; even more specifically, it is the West Virginia I was raised in, and the West Virginia my family calls home. Throughout this collection, I examine personal interiority through poems discussing illness, hospitalization, and death, and expand to meditate on the problems of living within a region such as Appalachia, with poems about the interactions between the environment and the people who affect it.
Larissa Szporluk (Advisor)
Sharona Muir (Committee Member)
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poetry; west virginia; appalachia; identity

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  • Wright, A. (2016). Small Mythologies [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467764289

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wright, Alicia. Small Mythologies. 2016. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467764289.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wright, Alicia. "Small Mythologies." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467764289

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