Asleep in the Arms of God

A work of creative fiction in the form of a short novel, Asleep in the Arms of God is a limited-omniscient and omniscient narrative describing the experiences of a man named Wafer Roberts, born in Jack County, Texas, in 1900. The novel spans the years from 1900 to 1925, and moves from the Keechi Valley of North Texas, to Fort Worth and then France during World War One, and back again to the Keechi Valley. The dissertation opens with a preface, which examines the form of the novel, and regional and other aspects of this particular work, especially as they relate to the postmodern concern with fragmentation and conditional identity. Wafer confronts in the novel aspects of his own questionable history, which echo the larger concern with exploitative practices including racism, patriarchy, overplanting and overgrazing, and pollution, which contribute to and climax in the postmodern fragmentation. The novel attempts to make a critique of the exploitative rage of Western civilization.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

1999

Author dc:creator

• Clay, Kevin M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rodman, Barbara
• Martin, Lee
• Tanner, James T. F.

• Texas -- Fiction.
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
• fiction
• Texas literature
• World War I
• Western civilization

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Clay, Kevin M.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 47095142
untcat: b2298619
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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