Date of Award
2008
Degree Name
English
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Katharine Rodier
Second Advisor
Art Stringer
Third Advisor
Anthony Viola
Abstract
Memoirs and poetry. Concerns the travels of a West Virginian woman, the granddaughter of a first generation Sicilian West Virginian, within the U.S., the Bahamas, Thailand, and China, where she taught English as a second language for two years from 2000-2002. Themes include identity (Appalachian, Persian, African-American, Chinese, and even Uigur), ethnicity and gender in West Virginia, fatalism, religion, poverty, Diaspora, travel, discrimination, the Ugly American/European, Ah Q, Imperialism, Orientalism, otherness, political asylum, victims and survival, substance abuse in West Virginia, feminist narrative, West Virginian authors, mountaintop removal, environmentalism, and protest.
Subject(s)
Feminism and literature - Appalachian Region.
Mountaintop removal mining - Environmental aspects.
Recommended Citation
Broce, Kelly Renee, "Will Travel : Journey Memoirs" (2008). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 511.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/511
Included in
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons
