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Title
Document Type
Campus Access
Degree Program
English
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2011
Month Degree Awarded
May
Keywords
fiction, Guatemala, interpersonal boundaries, social norms, psychodermatology
Abstract
Skin is a novel set in Guatemala which uses narrative shifts in tense and perspective to investigate interpersonal boundaries, social norms, and isolation. It involves a wall, a mole, psychodermatology, limerence, excretion, and the lake.
COinS
Advisor(s) or Committee Chair
Bachelder, Christopher
Murray, Sabina