Graduation Term
2016
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Department of English
Committee Chair
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.
Access Type
Dissertation-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Qabazard, Summer, "All Hands Bury the Dead" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 628.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/628
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2016.Qabazard.S