University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
The story that cannot be told: nine chapters of historical fiction with a craft essay
Abstract
dc:description.abstractAlternating between folktales, family lore, and historical fiction, The Story That Cannot Be Told is based on the final few months of Nicolae Ceauşescu's reign in Communist Romania. Ten-year-old Ileane's uncle has been captured by the Securitate after publishing anti-communist poetry. When her father discovers their apartment is bugged, he destroys his daughter's life's work—a Great Tome of stories—and sends her to live with her grandparents in a mountain village. There, Ileane begins transcribing tales that range from her grandfather's participation in the Holocaust to a code disguised as a local legend. She must use these stories to save not only her family but the village itself. The thesis consists of the first nine chapters of the completed novel and a craft essay: “The Slow and the Strange: Deceleration and Defamiliarization in All the Light We Cannot See, The Tiger’s Wife, and The Story That Cannot Be Told.”
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Year dc:date.available
- 2027
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Miller, Jessica K.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Einstein, Sarah
- Baker, Sybil; Balazs, Thomas
- College of Arts and Sciences
Rights
dc:rights- Language dc:language
- English, eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/506
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1658