Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Date of Award
5-2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Creative Writing
First Advisor
Emmy Perez
Second Advisor
Dr. Marci R. McMahon
Third Advisor
Dr. William Broz
Abstract
This project is a manuscript for a YA novel written in verse and represents the type of YA literature I hope to publish after graduating. Awake chronicles the story of Alejandra de Luna, a high school student from the Rio Grande Valley who must come to terms with an abusive home situation, while at the same time struggling to find her place and her voice as an artist, writer, daughter, and young Latina. To complicate her world more, she begins to dream of Tenochtitlan, the former capital of the Aztec Empire. She experiences Aztec culture as one of patriarchy and violence through the dialogue of several Aztec characters, one of which crosses the threshold of time to become part of Alejandra.
Granting Institution
University of Texas-Pan American
Comments
Copyright 2011 Minerva Vasquez. All Rights Reserved.
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