Into the water
Date
2010
Authors
Eickholt, Alexandra, author
Morales, Juan, advisor
Taylor, Ted, committee member
Frank, Katherine, committee member
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Abstract
Into the Water features eight stories. The stories are written in the mode of magical realism, which can be described in terms of the merger between the realistic and the fantastic. A main consideration addressed in specific definitions of the mode is how completely the reader believes in the magical elements of a story as they are juxtaposed with the realistic setting. Contemporary writers who influenced this collection include Rabih Alameddine, Neil Caiman, and Patrick Suskind. The stories in Into the Water loosely trace a timeline beginning during the early colonization of North America and ending in the modern day. They explore an intersection between European and Native American folklore, using animal totems as each main character has a literal animal that acts as a guide to bring that character to a resolution within the story. While the stories are designed to stand alone, there is also a framework where they can be read as stories within- a-story, framed by the first story, “There Was Once a Little Boy Who Walked Very, Very Far” and the last, “Needle and Thread.” They are the two most contemporary stories and both have the same main character. Throughout the collection, unifying symbolic motifs of water, traditionally associated with rebirth and change, and of birds, and especially birds of prey that are traditionally associated with sight, are featured.
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Print version deaccessioned 2022.
Print version deaccessioned 2022.
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Subject
Stories, plots, etc
Magic realism (Literature)