Arguments with my mother

My thesis consists of a 13-page craft paper and a series of linked narratives forming a braided memoir. This multi-perspective memoir is based on a combination of my grandmother's written reminiscences, stories my mother has told me, my own experiences, and a draft of a personal memoir. My grandmother's experiences function as the foundation of the work; the additional braided elements explore the places where our experiences converge and diverge, address the question of what happened, and acknowledge that we might never reach agreement on that question, even where these experiences were shared. My title for this project, Arguments With My Mother, is a reference to many mothers (mine, and hers, and hers, as well). It refers to the arguments we have always had about our shared history, and points a bit more obliquely to an acknowledgement that our personal and familial stories may never be a settled matter.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Year dc:date.available

2027

Author dc:creator

• Fortune, Mary

Contributors dc:contributor

• Babine, Karen, 1978-
• Einstein, Sarah; Palmer, Heather
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Creative nonfiction
• Families--History
• Memory in literature
• Women--Identity

Licence

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

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/1036

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2219