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Duncan, Wanda 2013-06-06T21:19:25Z 2013 https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/38524 In this collection of four creative non-fiction essays, the author describes her experience of returning to her small hometown in mid-life. She uses the writings of southern authors as sources for themes of travel writing, literary grotesque, pilgrimage tales, and redemption. The works of Flannery O'Conner, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Harry Crews, and William Bartram were examined for both style and content. The essays illuminate both the physical spaces and the inhabitants of the town, the metaphorical elements of the grotesque and the sacred, and how these elements converge for the author in meaningful ways. en Wake Forest University creative non-fiction Florida grotesque memoir Southern American literature Cracker Gothic: A Memoir Thesis Wilson, Eric G. Edelson, Julie B. Phillips, Thomas O. Liberal Studies (MALS) forever 10000-01-01 restricted