dc.contributor.advisor | Harrington, Joseph | |
dc.contributor.author | Colatosti, Jennifer Melissa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-03T20:54:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-03T20:54:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-08-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14231 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19582 | |
dc.description.abstract | A Loving Mother, A Devoted Wife, is a hybrid genre book that braids together historical fiction and contemporary memoir The book begins with my discovery of a love triangle and murder scandal involving my great-great aunt Isabella Wlladysh, a Polish immigrant living in Hamilton, Ohio in the early twentieth century. The historical fiction component pieces together her life in a way that gives voice to a woman who, during her ex-husband’s trial for the murder of her lover, was berated by the judge as “weak-minded.” The memoir component traces my grappling with this “secret” family history, addressing questions of identity as it is influenced by family, history, memory, and gender. | |
dc.format.extent | 403 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Literature | |
dc.subject | American literature | |
dc.subject | Family | |
dc.subject | Fiction | |
dc.subject | History | |
dc.subject | Memoir | |
dc.title | A Loving Mother, A Devoted Wife | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Moriarty, Laura | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Canady, Darren | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Mielke, Laura | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Wood, Nathan | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | English | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | embargoedAccess | |