Date of Award

2011

Degree Type

Thesis

Department

English

First Advisor

Rahman, Imad

Subject Headings

Biography as a literary form, Journalism and literature, Nonfiction novel, Personal narrative, memoir, creative nonfiction, literary journalism

Abstract

None Of My Idols Were Worth Worshipping is a personal narrative that uses fiction literary techniques - dialogue, scenes, etc. to tell the story of a black girl who becomes a music journalist instead of a novelist like her idol, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story is divided into chapters, and the first 16 chapters constitute the following thesis. There is a critical introduction, which is followed by the text

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