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<p dir="ltr">I'm most interested in the aspects of self-confession and focusing on the small moments of life. My project will be about piecing together small moments that together tell a larger narrative.</p>

This paper examines the relationship between memoir and truth, and the implications of that relationship for the rhetorical work that memoirs do. It uses the grounding example of Tara Westover's 2018 memoir Educated and looks at how the recreation of events within her life works both in conjunction with the way she portrays them in the text and juxtaposed against other competing narratives, such as her mother's 2020 memoir Educating. This essay continues the work done by literary theorists such as Phillipe LeJeune, applies the critical framework developed by Katherine Mack and Johnathan Alexander in their article "The Ethic of Memoir," and encourages the reader to consider the ways in which memoirs are rhetorically acting upon the culture at large through their narrative and emotional aspects. / Master of Arts / This paper looks at the relationship between memoir and truth in memoirs. Using rhetoric as its basis, it examines memoirs in their contexts using Tara Westover's 2020 memoir Educated as a case study. It looks at the way that memory is used to build narratives, and more specifically, the way that lived personal experiences are represented in the form of the memoir genre. In considering these ideas, this paper explores questions of objective "truth" and how lived experiences can be affected by internal emotional narrative, and by extension, how that emotional narrative is depicted in memoir.

Beneath the Surface is a collection of seven individual literary nonfiction essays. Five of the essays are personal essays, and three come from the author's contribution to UNO's Katrina Narrative Project. The collection represents the author's cumulative body of work upon completion of her MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing at UNO. Titles include: "Beneath the Surface, " "Hello, Harry, " "My One-Summer Bike, " "Just Like Jazzfest, " In Defense of Sodom, " "'Every Year It's Something, '" and "Revising my Approach. The essays explore themes such as sibling bereavement, Latin American travel, the incomprehensibility of death, experiencing new cultures, online teaching, and hurricane evacuation.

A woman just getting settled in New Orleans with her fiancé is uprooted by Hurricane Katrina. She spends the two months after the hurricane in various parts of Louisiana trying to pick up the pieces of her uprooted reality. Along the way, she encounters ordinary people who act as inspirations and is also reminded of her deceased Chinese grandmother, whom she was care-giver to before she died and whose stories about life in China and the US parallel the woman´s own life during the post-Katrina months of vulnerability and change.

Submitted by Vasti Diniz (vastijpa@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-20T14:39:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2509491 bytes, checksum: f01d0a5eb686bcd5b04e8a6c29c6133c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-20T14:39:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2509491 bytes, checksum: f01d0a5eb686bcd5b04e8a6c29c6133c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-17 / This project aims to create a creative nonfiction book that will have profile stories of artists from the Brazilian state of Paraíba, and that will be achieved through narratives of Literary Journalism. Because of the new technologies and the unstoppable flow of information, the majority of daily news is superficial and direct, which makes it hard deepening the subjects they refer to. Literary Journalism in the other hand puts together techniques from journalism and literature, as procedures of observation, description and narrative, in order to humanize as much as possible the reports and give cadence to the text. It‘s noticeable that news based on Literary Journalism is related to cultural events or press releases sent by media offices. That makes it difficult for society to have a clear idea of its own culture and knowledge about its own artists. Therefore, the creative nonfiction book purposed in this project will contain six profile stories of artists from Paraíba with established careers in many segments, willing to show their personal lives and production over the years as well as the historic and cultural context in which they have been involved. The option for a creative nonfiction book is due to the fact it is a tool that allows journalists to write deep reports with deeper investigation and also freedom on the narrative stylistics. / O presente projeto tem como proposta a criação de um livro-reportagem, contendo perfis jornalísticos de artistas paraibanos, utilizando o Jornalismo Literário como estilo de narrativa, visto que, devido à velocidade das informações e às novas tecnologias, as reportagens realizadas no jornalismo cotidiano, na maioria das vezes, são reducionistas, dificultando, assim, o aprofundamento do tema. O Jornalismo Literário reúne as técnicas do jornalismo com as narrativas advindas da literatura, como procedimentos de observação, descrição e narração, a fim de humanizar ao máximo a matéria e dar mais fluidez ao texto. Percebe-se também que, no jornalismo cultural, as matérias publicadas nos meios de comunicação são relacionadas a eventos culturais ou aos releases enviados pelas assessorias de imprensa. Isso limita a sociedade no sentido de ter uma visão mais crítica sobre sua cultura e mais conhecimento sobre seus artistas. Neste sentido, o trabalho apresentará seis perfis de artistas da Paraíba, de diversos segmentos, com uma carreira mais consolidada, de modo que se conheça a obra e a vida destes personagens e o contexto histórico-cultural no qual ele está envolvido. Para isso, a escolha de um livro-reportagem, como o produto a ser desenvolvido, é motivada, principalmente, por ser uma ferramenta que permite trabalhar com a reportagem em profundidade, na qual se pode ter uma investigação mais elaborada e maior liberdade narrativa.

This creative nonfiction dissertation is a book of essays that explore the author's life and relationship to Upstate New York. The project also connects this experience to gender and trauma. Though the topics range from local history to cosmetic surgical procedures, the essays are collected by how they illuminate cultural tensions and universal truths. These essays are preceded by a critical preface that examines the differences between essays collections, books of essays, and argues for the recognition of narrative nonfiction as an artistic choice.

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