Date of Award

9-27-2016

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Department of English

First Advisor

Gabriel Gudding

Abstract

All Hands Bury the Dead is a collection of poetry, salted with creative non-fiction, and images, exploring trauma, memory, time, nostalgia, mental health, and love in the backgrounds of the Gulf War in Kuwait (1990-1991), domestic violence, relationships, and academia. The dissertation includes a critical preface that theorizes how racist, sexist, and colonialist ideologies can be reproduced in and supported through the uncritical application of theory to practice. The dissertation also includes an exploration of the assumptions about the innateness of creative writing ability that utilizes psychological theories of creativity to build a pedagogy to support the creative potential of developing writers.

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Imported from ProQuest Qabazard_ilstu_0092E_10844.pdf

DOI

http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2016.Qabazard.S

Page Count

177

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