Year of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis - Campus Access Only
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Degree Name
Creative Writing (Nonfiction)
Department or School/College
English
Committee Chair
Judy Blunt
Commitee Members
Chris Dombrowski, Daniel Spencer
Keywords
nonfiction, essays, creative, Arkansas, Montana, van
Subject Categories
Nonfiction
Abstract
EL CAMINO is a collection of essays. The author, reared in the oral storytelling tradition of the American South, was schooled early in the fine art of laughing to keep from crying. Later, in the literary works of authors ranging from Cervantes to Beckett, and in the school of hard knocks that is late-capitalist America, the author discovered both mentors and material galore to guide his stories from their oral storytelling roots onto the page. The essays in this collection explore themes of home and belonging, exile and migration, and memory and forgetting.
Recommended Citation
White, Richard Harrison, "El Camino: Essays" (2022). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 11872.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11872
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