Keywords
Magical realism, fiction, memoir, composite novel, military, war memoir, veteran
Abstract
My thesis, Escape Artist, is a composite novel written as a fictitious memoir, similar in style to Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, that describes my experiences between the years 2001 and 2011. During that time I went through Marine Corps Boot Camp, became a military police officer, patrolled Yuma, AZ, was sent to Iraq for a sevenmonth tour as a security detail just before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and made it back home four years later. The novel also looks into my struggles with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms, how they affected the people around me, and what I've been trying to do to remedy them (or ignore them)
Notes
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Graduation Date
2012
Semester
Fall
Advisor
Rushin, Pat
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
English
Degree Program
Creative Writing
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0004788
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0004788
Language
English
Release Date
6-15-2018
Length of Campus-only Access
5 years
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Arts and Humanities -- Dissertations, Academic, Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Humanities
STARS Citation
Mujica, Alejandro, "Escape Artist" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2389.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/2389