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This collection of short fiction and plays represents an exploration of twenty-first century gay culture, viewed from the vantage point of successive lifestages: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, maturity, and old age. These texts cumulatively display a broad approach to experimentation as they range in style from realism to postmodern absurd farce, magical realism to historical reimagination, and from romance to coming-out narratives. This collection examines territories that are both personally potent and potentially dangerous, testing what is acceptable for public consumption and pushing the range of accepted values. Characters come to terms with mourning, homophobia, self-identification, the failure of language, cross-cultural miscommunication, humor as deflection, the nature of theatre, voyeurism and exhibitionism, ostracism and solitude, abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional), and the limits of empathy. Through testing the boundaries and conventions of twenty-first century gay experiences, these plays and stories help to flesh out what it means to be moving beyond an “Other” status for the LGBTQIA community.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.F.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Writing and Media Arts (UMKC)

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Missouri–Kansas City

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Sawin, Nichola A.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hodgen, Christie, 1974-

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10355/52524

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/52524