عنوان

Fugue State

Number

TL47944

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Fugue State

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Tamer Mostafa

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Wenderoth, Joe

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Davis

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

52

Text of Note

Committee members: Clover, Joshua; Dolan, Frances E.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-21244-0

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

English

Body granting the degree

University of California, Davis

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

FUGUE STATE is a collection of poems that revolve around an eighteen month period when I witnessed my Arab father, relapse into drug addiction, fight in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, and live off and on in a homeless shelter since. During my father's ongoing issues, were the pivotal deaths of some friends and family, harassment by the San Francisco ATF division for an arson crime I proved I didn't commit, my own drug addictions, and finally leaving Stockton and its urban environment. In keeping with the idea of dissociative amnesia that occurs during a Fugue State, these events are portrayed in the form of narrative poems that are easy to visualize, and mostly stories that either lead up to or follow the time period in question. Simple stories of violence, drug use, flawed family dynamics, culture, and racism that have impacted my life, more so in a negative light.

American literature

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Arab;Death;Original writing;Poetry;Relationships;Stockton

Al Fardan, Shaima H.

Wenderoth, Joe

Subdivision

English

University of California, Davis

Call Number

1617973540; 1565704

Electronic name

p

[Thesis]

276903

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