Abstract
dc:description.abstractAuto Biography is a creative nonfiction memoir: A daughter, forced to move her unlovable, ever-combustible, wheelchairbound mother cross-country in an RV, attempts to come to terms with her via the automobiles of their lives. The story explores: 1) the universal dilemma of caring for aged parents––its stress, its pain, its sacrifice, and its dark humor; 2) memory––the "peeling back" narrative style working in the same layer upon layer way of memory, its non-linearity creating not so much a one-piece narrative but essay snapshots forming a family photo album view of this thing we call memory and this thing we call meaning; and, of course, 3) cars––their subtle yet surprisingly essential role in all our modern and post-modern lives.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.F.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Drama and Communications
- Year
- 2005
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Stephenson, Lynda Routledge
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Lavender, William
- Moore, Dinty
- Paola, Suzanne
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/231
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1235