Date of Award
Spring 5-5-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Creative Writing
First Advisor
Professor Peter Selgin
Second Advisor
Dr. Allen Gee
Abstract
"Where Are You From?" is an essay collection that seeks to answer the question of where someone is from. Their birthplace or the last place that they lived? The place where they have lived the longest, or the place that they identify with most with? The eleven essays in this collection engage these questions and others in an attempt to reconcile the author's deep-seated and pervasive sense of dislocation. In settings ranging from the Shetland Islands to Greece to Chicago, this collection explores what it means to call a place home––or not.
Recommended Citation
Knapp, Georgia, "Where Are You From: Essays on Finding Home" (2017). Creative Nonfiction MFA Theses. 1.
https://kb.gcsu.edu/nonfiction/1