Abstract
dc:description.abstract[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Migratory patterns is a collection of short stories that examine the experience of Americans traveling abroad. The stories are set in a wide range of settings: Guatemala, Ireland, France, Italy, Egypt, Belize, Mexico and Spain. The stories consider the role of internationalism in American identity in the post-9/11 world. The stories typically engage the problem of travel through a domestic lens and consider the ways interpersonal relationships, particularly relationships within families, alter and inform the construction of the self, and how the pressures of travel inform this dynamic. The collection includes an introduction that considers the role of travel in postmodern literature and the ways travel impacts the contemporary writer's use of form and structure in the making of short stories. This dynamic is considered in light of writers such as Henry James and Deborah Eisenberg, and the introduction suggests how travel informs the contemporary short story.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English (MU)
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Missouri--Columbia
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2008
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Oates, Nathan, 1976-
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Lewis, Trudy (Trudy L.)
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Access to files is limited to the University of Missouri--Columbia with SSO login.
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng, English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/7186