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Includes bibliographical references. / The dissertation is in the form of a novel. It is the story about Tina Moyo, a 31-year old middle-class woman living in contemporary Zimbabwe in the year 2006. She is happily married to a successful financial director, Andile Moyo, and she enjoys a life of privilege in a country where the economic situation has caused much suffering among ordinary people. Regular water and power cuts occur and there are chronic shortages of fuel and basic foodstuffs like bread, milk, sugar, and margarine. Tina's life is suddenly turned upside down when she discovers that her husband is having an affair with a woman called Zodwa. In Zimbabwe, such affairs are referred to as 'small houses'. This discovery sets Tina's life on a new course, characterised by emotional upheaval, deep pain, anger and confusion. She is forced to re-evaluate her life and her beliefs. She seeks counsel from her family and friends, which reveals some surprising realisations about the mindset of the people closest to her. She is forced to ask some painful. The dissertation is in the form of a novel. It is the story about Tina Moyo, a 31-year old middle-class woman living in contemporary Zimbabwe in the year 2006. She is happily married to a successful financial director, Andile Moyo, and she enjoys a life of privilege in a country where the economic situation has caused much suffering among ordinary people. Regular water and power cuts occur and there are chronic shortages of fuel and basic foodstuffs like bread, milk, sugar, and margarine. Tina's life is suddenly turned upside down when she discovers that her husband is having an affair with a woman called Zodwa. In Zimbabwe, such affairs are referred to as 'small houses'. This discovery sets Tina's life on a new course, characterised by emotional upheaval, deep pain, anger and confusion. She is forced to re-evaluate her life and her beliefs. She seeks counsel from her family and friends, which reveals some surprising realisations about the mindset of the people closest to her. She is forced to ask some painful questions related to love and marriage within the context of family and tradition and she is pulled in different directions.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaf 123). / This collection of short stories explores how ordinary individuals in extraordinary situations negotiate issues of race, gender, sexuality, and longing for home. Set in New York, the Caribbean, and South Africa, they reflect the history and culture of Caribbean immigrants and their children. These stories are meant to entertain and shed light on routinely unexplored areas of human experience: those of women, girls, homosexuals, immigrants, and working class people. The title, This Man Country, refers to how Caribbean people in my grandparents' generation thought of America as "this man country," a place where they would stay temporarily to connect with their children, make money, escape from their lives at home, among other reasons.

This collection of essays investigate and define events that have been relegated to the margins of history. They use primary sources to create a narrative and cover the tragedy of Ethelbert- Portland's only whale, the burning of the Pomona Hotel and its absence in historical memory, certain events in the life of my great-grandfather Julius Schepps and the tumultuous biography of Chinese-American Arctic explorer Charles Tong Sing.

When I began writing this collection, it started off as a short story collection. As I continued to work with memory and recreation / re-vision, my stories began taking the shape of non-fiction. I have decided to include two non-fiction pieces, bookending the fictional stories. I have found something in my thesis, this collection of stories that crosses boundaries and often intersect with each other, speaking from different perspectives. So what you have is a collection of stories, blurring genres, striving for new boundaries. These stories explore and meditate on relationships, the costs of love and loving, loss, sexuality, and identity—my experiences, spanning the human experience. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.. / Summer Semester, 2005. / June 15, 2005. / Arkansas, Lesbian, Asian American, Nonfiction / Includes bibliographical references. / Robert Olen Butler, Professor Directing Thesis; Sheila Ortiz-Taylor, Committee Member; Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Committee Member.