First Advisor

Paul Collins

Date of Publication

Spring 6-9-2014

Document Type

Closed Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing

Department

English

Language

English

Subjects

Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Anecdotes, Sexual minorities -- Social conditions -- Biography

DOI

10.15760/etd.2017

Physical Description

1 online resource (v, 174 pages)

Abstract

"The Fevered Road" is a memoir about coming to know oneself through what is lost and finding the liberation available in moments of absolute failure. The thesis explores the themes of failure, loss, identity, and rites of passage through the lens of the early 1990s, AIDS, murder, family, queerness, travel, and punk rock. The research is based primarily on journals, letters, correspondence with local historians, newspaper reports, internet sources, Massachusetts Department of Correction documents, and the author's personal recollection of events. The narrative is centered around the experience of two deaths in the author's early twenties, and is presented in a hybrid bookended/braided structure of the present and the chronological backstory.

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Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12796

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