Ghost Wife : A Memoir of Love and Defiance
Collingwood
:
Black Inc.
,
2013
Z1910742
2013
single work
autobiography
(taught in 1 units)
'Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life, and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she's in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America recognises same-sex marriage. What to do when love and the law collide? For Michelle, the answer is clear: go to Canada and get hitched there.
'Ghost Wife is the deep, funny, heartwarming and brave story of that trip. Along the way, Michelle reflects on why anyone would want to get married anyway, on the power of acceptance, and on the startling stories she uncovers in her family's past. She investigates the hidden worlds of people who live their lives outside social norms, sometimes illegally. Michelle doesn't want to disappear, not from her family and not from society. But living in Australia, will she always be a ghost wife?' (Publisher's blurb)
Exploring Genres in Creative Writing provides students in the Creative Writing major to complete their major with the opportunity to consolidate, apply, and further develop previously attained skills and critical approaches to creative writing across a number of genre forms.
The intention is to advance students' understanding of forms of writing that both inhabit and challenge genre boundaries and to write in cross-genre formulations.
Students will read in a range of genre styles which may include fiction, the lyric essay, fictional autobiography, the manifesto, creative non-fiction, the prose poem, psychogeography, nature writing, and science writing. Students will have the opportunity to reflect critically and creatively on the stylistic and generic aspects of these readings.
