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Lessons From the Grave: Stories

LaTurner, Madison
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1689787348236927

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2023, Master of Fine Arts, Miami University, English.
This collection has ten stories exploring queerness, religion/apostacy, family/estrangement, and how we react in the face of complete upheaval. Eschewing traditional forms, the collection crosses genres, consisting of fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid stories, making it not all one thing or another, but a non-binary collection, if you will. In several of the stories, we encounter monsters; in others, we plot to kill them. “The Path” follows a Mormon missionary caught in a liminal space between believing and doubting, though “Lessons From the Grave” plants its feet firmly outside of religion, detailing Mormon violence against queer people. The stories progress from grief to rage to acceptance, a record of emotions through two years of estrangement and shunning.
Joseph Bates (Committee Chair)
Cathy Wagner (Committee Member)
Margaret Luongo (Committee Member)
96 p.
Bible; Biblical Studies; Families and Family Life; Gender; Gender Studies; Language; Language Arts; Literature; Religion; Religious History
queerness; Mormonism; estrangement; family; non-binary genders; apostacy; gender and sexuality; top surgery

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  • LaTurner, M. (2023). Lessons From the Grave: Stories [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1689787348236927

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • LaTurner, Madison. Lessons From the Grave: Stories. 2023. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1689787348236927.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • LaTurner, Madison. "Lessons From the Grave: Stories." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1689787348236927

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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