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Show A PLACE BY THE TAY A STUDY ON ORIGIN Christine Kannapel Katharine Coles Department of English A PLACE BY THE TAY is a study on origin. It works through a lens that encircles decisions made by the pressures of society and that have produced one’s sense of origin across space and time. The question of legitimacy is particularly focused upon. What is and is not deemed legitimate by society through the government, religion, and life experience, and how it all affects one’s descendants, are the major points discussed. The case study begins in Utah and extends nearly half a millennium back into Scotland, on the shores of the River Tay. The form of A PLACE BY THE TAY is creative. It experiments with creative non-fiction. The piece selected to represents the project, as a whole, is an essay that best shows the navigation of space and time in finding one’s origin. |
