Sugar Nine: A Creative thesis

<p>This collection of short stories explores the different ways women tolerate violence in exchange for some form of validation. The narratives focus on women and the reverberations of small moments which carry violent mass. While the violence occasionally includes physical elements, the collection is more concerned with the ways women accept emotional and psychological violence—specifically from men. Themes, motifs and symbols from the Clytie-Helios myth are threaded throughout the collection as well as a concern for space and touch, art and the creation of art, silence and voice. All of these elements involve control as the women characters in these stories struggle to resist their own objectification. A critical introduction which explains how form and language amplify story precedes the collection.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MA

Grantor dc:publisher

Brigham Young University - Provo

Author dc:creator

• Dyer, Emily L.

• short story
• language
• prose
• writing
• violence
• women
• myth
• space
• voice
• English Language and Literature

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1342

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarsarchive.byu.edu:etd-2341