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University of New Mexico

This Side Up, Upside Down

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

<p>This Side Up, Upside Down is a collection of one short novella and six short stories dealing with themes of guilt, disconnection, mis-creation, aging, death, grief, and time. The stories mostly follow the life of Theo Cobarde, a Mexican-American man living in the small town of Eagle, Idaho. He is concerned with the experiences of his older family members, who were all migrant farm workers in California in the mid-twentieth century. Having grown up in Idaho, Theo feels disconnected from his family, and most of all, from his father. The guilt of how he treated his aging father eats away at Theo Cobarde, causing strange occurrences in his life.</p>

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
MFA Creative Writing
Level thesis:degree_level
Masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
English
Year dc:date.available
2013

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Nunez, Adam Christopher
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Mueller, Daniel
  • Warner, Sharon Oard
  • Shea, Jerome
  • Islam, Maimuna Dali

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
English

Identifiers

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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:engl_etds-1075

Chain of custody

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2026-07-24
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citation

Nunez, Adam Christopher. This Side Up, Upside Down. Masters thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23145