Date of Award
5-11-2015
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Beth Gylys
Second Advisor
Dr. David Bottoms
Third Advisor
Dr. Wayne Erickson
Abstract
The poems in God Made the Apples, We Made the Bites explore resilience, love, and even celebration and wonder in the face of physical and psychological trauma of the individual, the family, and various communities (regional, religious, national, etc.). Grounded in trauma theory and neuroimaging, the poems also visit distortion, impermanence, time as a relative and unreliable human construct, troubled attempts to authenticate memory, and the paradoxical persistence of memories, symbols, relationships, and the self, even as they disintegrate.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/7007514
Recommended Citation
Melilli-Hand, Jessica, "God Made the Apples, We Made the Bites." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2015.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/7007514