Committee members: Cesarini, Patrick; Moberg, Mark
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-438-19612-4
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
College of Arts and Sciences
Body granting the degree
University of South Alabama
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2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Cajun Crawfish and the Hijab is a book in the creative nonfiction genre. The work focuses on the life of an American, Southern, Catholic female who converted to Islam two months after 9/11. The work is a coming-of-age story and an exploration of what pushes people to need one religion over another. Though the framing introduction is written in first person, the body of the work is written in third person. This book is influenced by literary journalism, specifically In Cold Blood, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and Hiroshima. This thesis contains the first three of five total sections.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Creative writing; Journalism
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Subject Term
Communication and the arts;Baton Rouge;Catholicism;Childhood;Conversion;Islam;New Orleans;Original writing