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Doctoral Dissertation Announcement
Candidate: Adam Bruce Schuitema
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: English
Title: Freshwater Boys
Committee:
Stuart Dybek, M.F.A. Chair
William A. Johnston, Ph.D.
Nicolas Witschi, Ph.D.
Stephanie Sandberg, Ph.D.
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Friedmann Hall, Room 2307
Abstract: Freshwater Boys is a collection of sixteen short stories set in and around the Great Lakes of Michigan. The stories often focus on adolescent and pre-adolescent males struggling to define and achieve what they consider manhood. At the same time, other stories depict grown men grasping at this very same idea. Faith, loss, and landscape all figure prominently in the collection. Rather than a compilation of coming-of-age tales, the works focus on what happens when young boys and men fail to come of age and fail to achieve their masculine ideals.