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In This Universe

Voet, Sofia Catharina
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0821-9897
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1658439689561845

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2022, Master of Fine Arts, Miami University, English.
Focused on alternate universes where you can get your car taxidermied, where you can be reincarnated as your neighbor’s golden retriever, and where you have conversations with loved ones you’ve meant to all your life (but couldn’t), In This Universe is a collection of branching what-ifs and cosmic could’ve-beens, a multiverse-jumping selection of short speculative personal essays, lyrical essays, and braided essays that challenges genre conventions and questions the idea of whether a single universe even exists that can accommodate multiple ways of being. Though it deals with many different subject matters, there is always the presence of an alternate universes working as a sort of metaphor for future-thinking and alternate ways of being. Written with the intention of providing a space for folks who don’t see themselves as valid in this world, or who can't imagine possibilities for themselves in this world, In This Universe looks to reimagine embodiment and to reshape spaces and ways of being, so that we might discover for ourselves far grander, perhaps far stranger, and mostly hidden possible realities.
Daisy Hernández (Committee Chair)
TaraShea Nesbit (Committee Member)
Jody Bates (Committee Member)
107 p.
Fine Arts
Creative nonfiction; speculative nonfiction; speculative fiction; memoir; speculative memoir; alternate universe; multiverse; absurdism; queer futurism; trans; queer; mental health challenges; futures studies; immigrant family; American Midwest; Upper-Midwest; identity; difficult familial relationships; chosen family; Midwest memoir; memoir

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Citations

  • Voet, S. C. (2022). In This Universe [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1658439689561845

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Voet, Sofia. In This Universe. 2022. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1658439689561845.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Voet, Sofia. "In This Universe." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1658439689561845

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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