Award Date
5-15-2018
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
First Committee Member
Maile Chapman
Second Committee Member
José Orduña
Third Committee Member
Douglas Unger
Fourth Committee Member
Vincent Perez
Fifth Committee Member
Anita Revilla
Number of Pages
220
Abstract
My thesis project is a novel of historical fiction centered on a Mexican family in the Saginaw River Valley, in Michigan, during the year 1918 near the beginning of the sugar beet boom. In the novel, the family, the Acevedos, own and operate their own farm amid the increasing use of migrant farm labor in the state. The Acevedos and the betaboleros they employ must navigate life’s vicissitudes as experienced through the lenses race and class differences to the community of rural Michigan, as well as gender and family dynamics, throughout the course of the story.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
File Format
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
Repository Citation
Buchanan, Timothy James, "A Land to Call Their Own" (2018). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 3223.
http://dx.doi.org/10.34917/13568397
Rights
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