Date of Award
2025-12-01
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Creative Writing
Advisor(s)
Daniel Chacon
Abstract
Creative writing, as a therapeutic modality, delves into memory and confronts fragmented emotional and cognitive processes through the medium of written language. For me, this involves language exerting resistance against memory, physical form, and silence. Boxing the Shadow, a hybrid of memoir, flash nonfiction, poetry, graphic novel scripting, and playwriting, emerges from my experiences with moral injury, and the ongoing process of self-expression that challenges institutional structures. At its essence, writing is an act of survival: it renders visible the inarticulable, identifies the phantoms and specters that haunt, and finds a suitable form to accommodate memory's unreliability and the jaggedness of its wounds.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2025-12
File Size
728 p.
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Brad Haines
Recommended Citation
Haines, Brad, "Boxing the Shadow, Based on Some True Stories by Madskater Bohannon" (2025). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 4554.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/4554