Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis thesis contains two parts: a craft paper on interiority and seven chapters of a young adult social realism novel. The craft paper explores different strategies for “showing and telling” as a means of conveying interiority in faith-based characters, and it analyzes these strategies in two YA novels, Let’s Call it Doomsday by Katie Henry and Autoboyography by Christina Lauren, both of which center around queer, Mormon characters. The novel chapters in the thesis are from Something Holy, which follows Beck Taylor, an eighteen-year-old, mostly closeted bisexual boy who only has a few months until he leaves on a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Determined to make the most of his time left, he and his cousin Emilia follow Evergreen, their favorite local band, on tour, but when Beck falls for the male drummer Julius, feelings and faith complicate his perfect summer.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Author and committee
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- Silva, Madison
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Baker, Sybil
- Stewart, Jennifer L.; Babine, Karen, 1978-
- College of Arts and Sciences
Subjects
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dc:rights- Language dc:language
- English, eng
Identifiers
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- https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/789
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1982