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Date of Award

Spring 2023

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Department or Program Affiliation

English

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Guess, Carol, 1968-

Second Advisor

Magee, Kelly, 1976-

Third Advisor

Brown, Nicole R.

Abstract

“I’m Sorry, I Love You” spans the author’s childhood, utilizing both the author’s memory and the memory of familial oral tradition. ISIL is meant to be a compassionate portrait of the power literacy grants in developing resiliency, touching on adversity related to the neglect that results from being raised by parents with mental illness and substance abuse disorders. ISIL is not meant to critically approach these experiences but to offer an evocative, immersive, emotional perspective that invites others into the space of what this means. Technically, ISIL is a visual novel written within a visual novel engine that shares visual novel (VN) features like environments (background images), sprites (character images), and animations. It is an autobiographical work that utilizes limited interactivity.

Type

Text

Keywords

digital, multimedia, autobiography, creative nonfiction, interactive

DOI

https://works.bepress.com/jemma-everyhope-roser/1/download/

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

1380914436

Subject – LCSH

Creative nonfiction; Children; Memory; Oral tradition; Interactive multimedia

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

Language

English

Rights

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