Degree Type
Thesis
Date of Award
2016
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
Major
Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication
First Advisor
Stacy Tye-Williams
Abstract
Stories of Sky and Sea: Storying the Generational Divide at Cape Muroto is a thesis that demonstrates the identity construction of Japanese groups at Cape Muroto through the embedded local narratives. The paper explores the embodied and imminent nature of the local narratives that are built around the mythic figure Kōbō Daishi. This research focuses on the expressions of “other-than-human-persons”—location, nature, geography, ecology, etc.—as active agents in rhetoric, public memory, and religious folk story. I use ethnographic research to investigate how narrative expresses a religious identity in conversation with social, environmental, and economic conditions.
Copyright Owner
Eric James Waite
Copyright Date
2016
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
File Size
61 pages
Recommended Citation
Waite, Eric James, "Stories of sky and sea: Storying the generational divide at Cape Muroto" (2016). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 15832.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15832
