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Item Restricted Anatomic diagnosis: a defense(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Combs, Sunset, author; Fletcher, Harrison, advisor; McConigley, Nina, committee member; Souza, Caridad, committee memberThis collection of letters in the form of a defense looks to showcase poor white womanhood and the expectations for violence that are inherent in the systems that teach and protect them. Using personal experience, archival documents, and cultural critique Anatomic Diagnosis: A Defense questions the ways we can reenact the violence that has been to us. Looking specifically at the academy and state-run institutions, this collection exposes the possibility of exploitation when personal trauma becomes a commodity in a capitalist system. It uses the lives of three generations of women who have worked to barely live and learned to make a home out of the injustice that was their everyday reality.Item Restricted Hurricanes make the best bouquets(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Meyer, Eliana, author; Ausubel, Ramona, advisor; McConigley, Nina, committee member; Emami, Sanam, committee memberHurricanes Make the Best Bouquets is a collection of short stories which explores love, loss, isolation, inner strength, and the process and shape of forgiveness. These nine stories reimagine the domestic drama as a place where displaced men and women—mothers, daughters, sisters, divorcees and one widower—search for answers in decomposition, orange blossom perfume, and strange apparitions. From the top of a lighthouse to a Visalia Super 8 to a Salvation Army window display, the heartache these characters experience in the wake of abandonment, death, and self-discovery asks them to adapt to new realities and confront the meaning of home and belonging.Item Restricted Rupture(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Bucheli Peñafiel, Carolina, author; Ausubel, Ramona, advisor; Dungy, Camille, advisor; McConigley, Nina, committee member; Martin Quijada, Carmen, committee memberThis collection of short stories is tied together by the genre known as Andean gothic which fuses the indigenous and mestizo cosmovision, myths, symbols, believes, worldviews, legends, and imaginaries of the Ecuadorian geographic area, with the realities of Ecuadorians' everyday lives. Rupture is a collection of eight short stories that center around these realities in terms of gender, power dynamics, self-discovery, the paranormal, religion, culture, race, politics, gender, loss of innocence, migration, and dislocation. In addition, they circle around mysteries detonated by these intersections, realities, and sometimes even around violence and horror. The title comes from the concept of capturing decisive moments in all the characters in this story collection life, where something about their worldview got disrupted, and they had to move out of their zone of familiarity (not necessarily comfort). All of them are traversing the known into the unknown and are learning lessons from the world that surrounds them. All of the stories border a tangible world, an internal space, and oftentimes a paranormal space as well. I didn't make the distinction of whether or not an otherworld or a paranormal world exists or if it's a product of the character's minds and beliefs, since that is not precisely the point of the stories. The point is on how they shape and intersect with the lives of the characters. I wanted to pay homage to the stories I grew up hearing where all these elements mixed in a natural unquestionable way, where they are not mutually exclusive.