Capstone/Thesis Title
Term
Spring 5-10-2018
Upload Type
Restricted Access Thesis
Primary Advisor/Thesis Chair
Angela Pelster-Wiebe
Secondary Advisor/Outside Reader
Katrina Vandenberg
Degree Name
MFA
Abstract
Wildflowers and Smoke, a hybrid thesis manuscript, part lyric essay, part poetry, ponders Rural Womanhood - becoming a woman in the masculine space of rural America. It examines the dualities and hypocrisies that accompany this space: the appeal of masculine strength even though the narrator was surrounded by strong women; the love and hate of everything seemingly never changing in the corners of society; her disgust as friends claim all country folk "rednecks" and "Republican" and "racist," while constantly perpetuating that very stigma.
Subgenre
Essay, Lyric essay, Hybrid / multi-genre
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Katie L., "Wildflowers and Smoke" (2018). Creative Writing Programs. 29.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/cwp/29
dc_type
text
dc_publisher
DigitalCommons@Hamline
dc_format
application/pdf
dc_source
Creative Writing Program