Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"personal memoir"”.
-
Crisis and Opportunity
<p>Personal memoir.</p>
-
An Unstable Container
… essays and poetry, with influences from personal memoir, lyric essays, race and gender studies, and poetry. The work examines the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, and the ways in which language, society, and the human body contribute to the construction of one's sense of …
-
Top Flight
Top Flight uses personal memoir and the ordinary experiences of everyday life as a vehicle to discuss privacy, self-awareness, learning and personal growth. The exhibit, comprised of twenty-eight large-scale drawings, took the form of an installation, encompassing one wall twenty-eight feet wide …
-
Arguments with my mother
… a series of linked narratives forming a braided memoir. This multi-perspective memoir is based on a combination of my grandmother's written reminiscences, stories my mother has told me, my own experiences, and a draft of a personal memoir. My grandmother's experiences function as the foundation …
-
Ghost, Moving
… history, genealogy, physical landscape, and personal memoir. The essays therein investigate the past through the lens of the present, and the present as informed by the past. Written from a first person perspective, many of the essays directly address individuals or time periods long gone, …
-
Body image/imagining bodies: Trauma, control, and healing in graphic memoirs about anorexia
… a subgenre known as graphic medicine. These memoirs, known as graphic pathographies, are written from those who interact with disease in various capacities from patient, to doctor, to caregiver. This project closely examines three graphic pathographies written about the eating disorder …
-
Entangled Among Things: Kudzu As a Creative Medium in Contemporary Southern Art
… entanglement. Using historical research, personal memoir, and artist interviews, this paper advocates for caring relationships amidst humans and more-than-human others through a hyper-focus on the stories held within materials.
-
Doorway to the Deep: Memoirs of Enduring Endometriosis and Embracing Life After Loss
… to the Deep </em>explores this concept through personal reflections and private diary and journal entries.</p> <p>The story commences on December 17, 1993 with my first diary entry when I was eleven years old. After enduring many years of endometriosis, the story climaxes on May 12, 2014 with my …
-
Anti-colonial radio broadcasts to British East Africa and their audiences, c. 1940-1963
… broadcast transcripts, colonial reports and personal memoir, it seeks to reconstruct not just who listened to these services but how they imagined their participation in a wider media ecosystem. It also examines how colonial administrators monitored, interpreted and responded to broadcasts. …
-
Love Everlasting: A Memoir
<p>This is a collection of memories shared by the author and his wife.</p>
-
Exploring experiences and perspectives of health, illness and death in selected contemporary African postcolonial texts
… perspectives, the study primarily focuses on memoir accounts of experiences and perspectives of health, illness and death. In response to the dearth of critical work, which primarily refers to body and its wellbeing socially integrating clinical diagnosis and the socio-natural human factors. …
-
The scholar advocate: Rudolf Schlesinger's writings on Marxism and Soviet historiography
… of his monographs, papers, drafts and memoir reflections. This allows for an appreciation of his academic contribution and an understanding of his unique personal motivation and perspective. Given his experiences, as well as the cultural, political and ideological paradigm from which he …
-
Fresh, Frugal, and Fabulous: A Woman's Guide to Cooking with Life
A narrative cookbook, including tips and stories for managing a downturn in finances with style and fortitude.
-
Variations on a Theme: Forty years of music, memories, and mistakes
… role through various memories? In this memoir, I look at the sweet, the traumatic and troubling. I use specific songs as connections to lost loved ones. I pin the power of music to the loss of three important people in my life: my sister, father, and mother. Who were their musical …