Date of Award

8-2018

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts

First Advisor

Eleni Sikelianos

Keywords

Fiction, Science fiction, Romance, Japan

Abstract

Okazaki Fragments (OF) is a science-fictional romance in prose, verse and graphics. It explores human and non-human varieties of relation and performance by adapting language, concepts and images from a series of sixteen scientific papers. The series, Mechanism of DNA Chain Growth, presents research on discontinuous DNA replication by molecular biologists Reiji Okazaki and Tsuneko Okazaki and their scientific collaborators. To construct imagined events and experiences for Okazaki and Okazaki, OF also borrows from Tsuneko Okazaki’s recollections and from many other Japanese sources, particularly the works of photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, artist Katsushika Hokusai and filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. In addition, the paintings, prints and writings of Agnes Martin are important to OF’s creative foundation. OF’s guiding figure is the DNA double helix.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. This work may only be accessed by members of the University of Denver community. The work is provided by permission of the author for individual research purposes only and may not be further copied or distributed. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Rights Holder

Kanika Agrawal

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

105 pgs

Discipline

Literature, Creative writing

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