Half a House: an excerpt from a novel
This thesis is as much of a love letter to Earth and all her inhabitants as it is a lamentation. Though written for children, it refuses to smooth over, downplay, or withhold the devastations of capitalism, the climate crisis, the Industrial Revolution, homophobia, and urbanization. Rather, this thesis seeks to bear witness, providing a companion with which to prepare for the world children are met with instead of the world we wish for them. Following an eleven-year-old autistic boy's friendship with a curmudgeonly elderly queer man, Half a House explores the pressing feeling of not belonging, unconventional friendships, community, and creaturehood. It demonstrates the responsibility I believe children's literature has to implore our community to think about their animal selves and their identity as a tellurian. It seeks to re-earn children's trust, honoring their incredible sensitivities, innate animism, and deep intelligence of the world in which they find themselves.
Object Details
Creators/Contributors
- Good, Jamie - author
- 1983-, Araki-Kawaguchi, Kiik, - thesis advisor
- 1960-, Trueblood, Kathryn R., - thesis advisor
- Steven, VanderStaay, - thesis advisor
Collection
collections WWU Graduate School Collection | WWU Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarship
Identifier
2341
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Degree name: Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
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OCLC number: 1440000243
Date Issued
January 1st, 2024
Publisher
Western Washington University
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Subject Topics
- novel
- fiction
- kidlit
- children's literature
- LGBT
- lgbtq
- lgbtq+
- middle grade
- weird fiction
- speculative Fiction
- fantasy
- urban fantasy
- climate fiction
- ecocriticism
- ecotheology
- climate change
- climate disaster
- capitalism
- social commentary
- absurdism
- literary nonsense