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University of Missouri--Kansas City

Ghost Fists

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Ghosts animate the stories and essays of this collection in ways both bodied and disembodied—as loops, as refrains, as stories that can’t be outrun. Moving across time and space to consider collective memory in Cambodia, the language of schizophrenia, and the reverberations of violence, each piece circles the unsayable: the strange and uncanny forces it exerts on our daily lives and the ways we are possessed by the things we cannot say. If we are all captive to language, to narrative, this collection considers whether and how we disrupt our own stories, how we construct and deconstruct ourselves as we go, and the places where our stories collide.

Degree

thesis:*
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
2016

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Geminder, Emily Carlson
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Hodgen, Christie, 1974-

Rights

Language dc:language.iso
en_US

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Handle dc:identifier.uri
https://hdl.handle.net/10355/61155
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/61155

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2026-07-24
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Geminder, Emily Carlson. Ghost Fists. Masters thesis, University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10355/61155