Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Set in Colorado Springs, <em>Cascade</em> is a novel detailing the unraveling senses of belonging of its cast of characters. At the start of the novel Isa’s adoptive father, Ottis, leaves the city where they’ve built a life as a small, makeshift family. Isa and her mother Teresa, brother Zo, and best friend Cherry are left to confront their individual and collective modes of survival in Colorado Springs. As a novel, <em>Cascade</em> is concerned with a less critically engaged edge of the black diaspora in America: the realities and peculiarities of being black the Mountain West, in a city that did not experience a major historical black migration but has an established black population due only to the military and scattered migrations of black individuals and families.</p> <p>While <em>Cascade</em> is the novel-in-progress examining these layers through detailing the lived experiences of its characters, the critical afterword is a craft essay exploring <em>Cascade’s</em> theoretical and spiritual underpinnings, as well as tracing its future potential. This afterword explores the influence of Black Geographies further, along with the novel’s engagement with reality TV, epiphenomenal time, craft questions of fiction and the true story, and the idea of ancestor as muse. As a whole, this project seeks to explore some of these seams between geography, blackness, the construction of family, and how we can use narrative to navigate the space between the living and the dead.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Year
- 2024
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Booze, Elisabeth L.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Patrick Cottrell
- Saleh Saterstrom
- Joanna Howard
- Tayana Hardin
- Jennifer Pap
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- <p>Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.</p>
- Language dc:language
- English (eng)
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2382
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.du.edu:etd-3371