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    Author
    Namey, Jason
    Chair
    Brightwell, Gerri
    Committee
    Mellen, Kyle
    Carr, Rich
    Keyword
    Identity (Psychology)
    Alaska
    Fiction
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    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8733
    Abstract
    The stories in Plastic Alaska depict characters losing--often literally--their own identities. Whether it be a young boy who believes that an Alaskan theme park ride transformed him into a different person, or a woman who finds herself compulsively imagining murdering her husband after watching a Terrence Malick film, or a desperate man who assumes the identity of his former best friend so he can get a job on a reality TV show, these characters find themselves thrown--sometimes reluctantly, sometimes willingly--into situations where they must leave their former selves behind just to survive the unwelcome intrusions of an absurd, demanding reality. Plastic Alaska shows--in worlds that range from the real to the fantastical--the dread, uneasiness, and occasional joy that accompanies metamorphosis.
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    Thesis (M.F.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2018
    Table of Contents
    AlaskaLand -- Pickle dies -- He knows where fish sleep -- The nature of the Ish -- Badlands -- Three studies of a man falling -- Plastic Alaska -- The Somnambulists -- Maybe it's some things that do never change -- Isn't there more to your life than that?
    Date
    2018-05
    Type
    Thesis
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    Creative Writing

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