In the Season of Our Monstering
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-bgsu15230207842398922021-08-03T07:05:53Z In the Season of Our Monstering Adams, Samuel J. Modern Literature Animals Comparative Literature Cultural Anthropology Experiments Fine Arts Folklore Literature Limnology Social Structure Spirituality Personality fiction ohio fiction monsters Fur Experimental Fiction exclusion California Fiction Bucharest Short Stories Stoicism flash fiction orchards beards travel writing monstering chapbooks fabulism anthropological fiction lovelorn cycles The stories in these four chapbooks examine borders, limitations, and the mechanisms of exclusion by which society operates, as well as the mechanisms of inclusion through which it might become kinder and better. The tales trot the globe and zip through time from a darkly dreamed-up, dystopic version of western Ohio to the Bucharest of the 1930s to the Podunk Fairgrounds of contemporary Central California. These stories examine tensions between agency and authority, freedom and self-destruction, and engagement and withdrawal, as the characters in them reckon with the possibility and peril of acceptance—of themselves, others, and the sadder inevitabilities of life—and interrogate notions of what it means to love and accept someone in a world where people are constantly denying others the same treatment. Many stories began as ethical questions the author couldn’t answer; rather than prescribe solutions, the stories observe at length the attempts of characters to find light in what is morally murky, and to justify to themselves and their community why they’ve let their light guide them thus. The collection of twenty-four stories was split into fourths in a concession to the attractive nature of the chapbook form and arranged according to natural cycles to approximate four seasons of weather, four times of the day, and four approximate stages of human life. “In an Ohio Dreamscape” has a wintry, midnight feel, and operates by the twilit illogic of dreams, childhood whimsy, and magic. “The Journalist is Here” springs the reader into a busy morning of work, travel, and praxis in the outer world; its pieces stem from autobiography, history, and facts gathered in pen-scrawled journals. “Lovelorn: Five Blues,” the noontime, summer section, examines mid-life heartache and the costs of living with and without love. “Grasses like Flayed Lion Hides,” the autumnal, California-set section, follows the sun to the Golden State and dips us West towards evening, night and death; its characters confront, reject, or accept the fundamentals of being alive in the regenerating and dying world they inhabit, doing their best to abide until the next “Season of Our Monstering” rolls around. 2018-04-17 English text Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1523020784239892 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1523020784239892 restricted--full text not available online This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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