Browsing by Author "Garrison, Stephen M."

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    • After six, at forty 

      Ngoka, Naomi Wanjiru (2014)
      This is a nonfiction memoir detailing my journey as an African immigrant. The focus is two pronged: it describes my deeper religious understanding as I went through a journey of barrenness to childbirth while simultaneously ...

    • Black vernacular English and the rhetoric of Jeremiah Wright 

      Similly, Leslie E. (2008)
      In this exposition I discuss the rhetorical conventions which are prevalent in the Black Church in order to demonstrate how the African American rhetorical tradition helps shape the cultural identity of many African ...

    • Crocus Albiflorus & other short stories. 

      Morris, Angela (2014)
      Crocus Albiflorus and Other Stories is a collection of 10 literary realism short stories. The collection is set in a broad scape of countries throughout the world, but all stories share the commonality of basic humanistic ...

    • Disconnected. 

      Gifford, John (2010)
      Abstract excerpt: Contains eight short stories exploring themes of displacement, isolation, emotional stagnation, and personal transformation. Primarily set in the American South and narrated by first-person male narrators, ...

    • Fly on the wall : odd scenes from seemingly normal people. 

      Castilla, Nicole Petra (2017)
      Watching individuals react to each other and communicate is fascinating and usually humorous to some extent. Fly on the Wall: Odd Scenes from Seemingly Normal People showcases those little scenes, those reactionary moments ...

    • Guns to keep. 

      Giles, Roy D. (2011)
      Rooted in the Central Oklahoma landscape, the three plays and seven stories in Guns to Keep explore parental betrayal, life without faith, and a loss of personal authenticity. The all-male rural voices often find themselves ...

    • Hatch 

      Hau, Melonie (2008)
      Hatch is a novel which examines the struggles of urbanization, drug additiction, alienation from community, and shame which threaten a rural Oklahoma family. The Metzers live on a farm in Hatch, a town formed in the 1890s ...

    • Hinterland. 

      Palmer, Betteanne (2007)
      A young adult novel set in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, aims at an audience of fifteen years old or older. Identity and responsibility emerge as the two most important themes in this bildungsroman, as sixteen-year-old ...

    • Infidels. 

      Rupp, Zacharia A. (2012)
      Infidels is a short story collection dealing with a myriad of themes, most centrally of failed parenting, love, and yearning for the divine through spiritual brotherhood. The world the characters of Infidels inhabit is one ...

    • Jamal Garcia. 

      Contreras-Almeida, Nora (2013)

    • Ka'l woman and other short stories. 

      Johnson, Charles R. (2017)

    • Lost in luck : stories. 

      Cimock, Jason (2011)
      Lost in luck: stories is a collection of eight short stories written and revised during my time as a graduate student at the University of Central Oklahoma. The most prominent theme within the collection is luck. Specifically, ...

    • Moonlight and other stories 

      Degginger, Jeffrey (2015)
      Moonlight and Other Stories is a collection of Literary Short Stories. It primarily deals with families in conflict, whether it's a newly divorced man who is convinced his only son is gay, or a young boy wanting to separate ...

    • On stony ground 

      Dearinger, Chase (2011)
      On Stony Ground chronicles the adventures of Goose, a young runaway, and his friend Henry, a mentally handicapped man who helps Goose survive in the small town of Cimarron, Oklahoma. Goose's journey begins when he is ...

    • Outlaw country. 

      McAlister, Kalyn L. (2018)
      Outlaw Country is a collection of poetry, prose poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, and short creative nonfiction that began as an exploration of the language our culture uses to talk about and describe women. My work ...

    • Paradise twin. 

      Marlow, Melissa (2018)
      1. Description of the Form of Genre of the Creative Project. Paradise Twin is a realistic novel set in Oklahoma at the Paradise Twin Trailer Park, which was formerly a drive-in movie theater. The first-person point of view ...

    • Pastor's son. 

      Irwin, Quinn (2012)
      Pastor's Son is a novel that explores the confusion surrounding the death of Eric Wells, a young man killed outside of a gay club in Oklahoma City. Those closest to Eric--his family, led by his father, David, a small town ...

    • Red pterodactyl. 

      Mingura, Corey D. (2011)
      Inspired by the surreal poetry of Russell Edson and the sound-driven poetry of Theodore Roethke, the poetry collection Red Pterodactyl explores the fine line between reality and the surreal by intertwining commonplace ...

    • Resting on weedy laurels : Lorine Niedecker's poetics of perseverance. 

      Reichert, Kathryn R. (2012)
      Lorine Niedecker began writing poems in the late 1920s from her home by the waters of Blackhawk Island, Wisconsin. This study examines her first associations with and empowerment through the Objectivists' new poetic ...

    • Secrets of a Pepto Bismol casa. 

      Temblador, Alexandra (2014)
      Secrets of a Pepto Bismal Casa explores the journey of a young, Mexican American girl named Martha in Laredo, Texas, in 1990. The novel is set in first person point-of-view and is split into two threads--what occurs in ...