Date of Award

4-23-2019

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Rhetoric and Writing

First Advisor

Heidi Harris

Abstract

The creative nonfiction portion of my thesis project is 37 pages of a fully designed ebook version of a hybrid genre memoir titled Things I Can’t Remember: A Memoir in Fragments, which is about my experiences as an adult dealing with multiple childhood traumas, specifically the acceptance of the difficult reality that I experienced childhood sexual abuse, even if I can not remember every instance of the abuse. In addition to the creative portion, there is a rhetorical evaluation of this designed memoir, detailing and defending my research methodology, writing methodology, design process, editorial process, and discussing my personal growth as an author and editor and how I might continue the project for future publication. The ebook portion of my thesis, located in this document beginning on page 48, contains seperate pagination and a separate table of contents due to its construction as a digital book.

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Nonfiction Commons

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