My dissertation is a memoir based on my childhood experiences growing up with a mentally ill mother. She exhibited violence both passive and aggressive, and the memoir explores my relationship with her and my relationship with the world through her. "Damned Good Daughter" developed with my interest in creative nonfiction as a genre. I came to it after studying poetry, discovering that creative nonfiction offers a form that accommodates both the lyric impulse in poetry and the shaping impulse of story in fiction. In addition, the genre makes a place for the first person I in relation to the order and meaning of a life story. Using reverse chronology, my story begins with the present and regresses toward childhood, revealing the way life experiences with a mentally ill parent build on one another.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc4163 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Yeatts, Karen Rachel |
| Contributors | Rodman, Barbara, Raign, Kathryn, Adams, Jenny |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Yeatts, Karen Rachel, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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