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Fill

Giesel Grimm, Rachel Elizabeth
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-0551
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1626783341759192

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2021, Master of Fine Arts, Miami University, English.
Fill is a satirical speculative-fiction novel that examines the relationship between environmental and psychological decomposition within late-stage capitalism, epitomized by our consumer waste system. Through the narrating perspective of a young selfproclaimed (and occasionally self-deluded) ecowarrior working in advertising and grieving the slow death of her grandmother to cancer, this novel examines performative, greenwashed propaganda, environmental damage via the cradle-to-grave trash system, and the endless cycle of consumerism that numbs minds via temporary, disposable satisfaction. Fill also illuminates the dangerous stories we tell ourselves—even “sell” ourselves—to preserve our sanity in the midst of a confusing, contradictory existence of constant consumption, and examines the consequences of (and our own complicity in) believing those fictions
Joseph Bates (Advisor)
Margaret Luongo (Committee Member)
TaraShea Nesbit (Committee Member)
85 p.
Fine Arts
novel, fiction

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  • Giesel Grimm, R. E. (2021). Fill [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1626783341759192

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Giesel Grimm, Rachel. Fill. 2021. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1626783341759192.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Giesel Grimm, Rachel. "Fill." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1626783341759192

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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