Date of Award

6-2015

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

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

First Advisor

Selah Saterstrom

Keywords

Creative writing, Fiction

Abstract

The Royalty of Oakwood County is a work of fiction composed of one hundred and twenty three, one-to-two page chapters of prose vignettes, fictional interviews, and fictional television episode dialogue transcriptions. The narrative focus is on the complicated relationships of a late teenage, female protagonist named Mercy Forrester. Through the layered construction of the narrative framework, Mercy navigates her feelings regarding her dying father, Ezra Forrester, better known as drag queen and reality television star Lady Ezra Foxxx, her home of Oakwood County, and notions of love, celebrity, fame, death, and dying.

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

Katie Jean Shinkle

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

154 pgs

Discipline

Creative writing

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