The Gospel According to Felix Kiger: Selections from a Family Memoir

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dc.contributor.authorKiger, Travis M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-19T19:25:33Z
dc.date.available2017-06-19T19:25:33Z
dc.date.issued2014-05-15
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is composed of selections from a family memoir that serves three coinciding masters. First, it serves as familial oral history preservation, prompted by a coincidental meeting on an airplane, and probes the lives of my great grandfather, grandfather, and father. Much of the narrative is in third person, and is cultivated from research, personal interviews, and oral histories. Secondly, the memoir as first person narrative attempts to reconcile my own place in the legacy of the Kiger men before me. This is at times challenging because the men before me were born and raised in Grand Isle. I determine that I am of that place more than I realized, but at the same time, I am not of that place in consideration of the diversity of my experience and my avoidance of the alcoholism and womanizing that have plagued the men of my family. Lastly, this project is about place – most specifically Grand Isle, LA. The selections in the thesis exhibit the evolution of the fishing island – both culturally and physically, economically and civilly. Grand Isle’s relationship to South Louisiana is often similar to my own relationship to my family. She is of that place, but also not. The observations and narratives that support this determination reveal that multiculturalism is a culture in itself, deserving of celebration and preservation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/68
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
dc.subjectMemoiren_US
dc.subjectOral historyen_US
dc.subjectFamilyen_US
dc.subjectGrand Isle, Louisianaen_US
dc.subjectMulticulturalismen_US
dc.titleThe Gospel According to Felix Kiger: Selections from a Family Memoiren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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