Date of Award
Spring 2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Program/Concentration
Creative Writing
Committee Director
Michael P. Pearson
Committee Member
Jennifer N. Fish
Committee Member
John McManus
Call Number for Print
Special Collections; LD4331.E64 S2933 2010
Abstract
Shelter tells the story of the writer's nine months spent volunteering at a home for young men in Cape Town, South Africa. It focuses on the themes of manhood and masculinity, dignity as a found concept, self-realization through travel, modern colonialism and the first world/third world relationship, and the meaning of volunteering, for both the individual and those being "helped."
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DOI
10.25777/ph94-pp09
Recommended Citation
Scaccia, Jesse.
"Shelter: Stories of the Tragic and Joyful Young Men of a South African Shelter"
(2010). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/ph94-pp09
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/396