Cracking

This thesis contains two parts: A craft paper on plot structure and five chapters of a nonfiction memoir about my experiences growing up transgender in the South. The craft paper explores alternative plot structure techniques used to convey transgender narratives in the nonfiction memoir She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Boylan and the literary fiction novel Detransition, Baby by Torey Peters. The creative portion contains five essay chapters from Cracking, a memoir that follows my transition from a child exploring my gender identity while suffering the societal and religious influence of a small, southern town to an adult who accepted my gender identity, transitioned, and realized that the town I grew up in may no longer be the safe place I once thought it was.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Year dc:date.available

2029

Author dc:creator

• Turner, Emily

Contributors dc:contributor

• Einstein, Sarah
• Wymer, Justin; Najberg, Andrew Michael
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Autobiography
• Gender transition--United States--Tennessee
• Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
• Transgender people--Identity
• Transgender people in literature

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/854

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2033