Date of Award
Spring 5-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Program/Concentration
Creative Writing
Committee Director
Ben Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
Committee Member
John McManus
Committee Member
Molly McCully Brown
Abstract
Symbiotic Complexity is a collection of hybrid memoir essays that explores the connection between the mental, physical and spiritual self. Each essay focuses on the body, in some way or another. In this collection I play with lyricism, form, and memory, to explore what it means to be human. I set out to write just about the physical and realized I can't do that without the mental since they are two halves of a whole that makes us human. In doing so, I realized that this collection really focuses on the complexities that being human creates and the impact that society, family, spirituality, and experiences have on the self as a whole.
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DOI
10.25777/n5b6-dp91
ISBN
9798819394571
Recommended Citation
Santos, Francesca.
"Symbiotic Complexity"
(2022). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/n5b6-dp91
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/122