It’s in the Bag – Stories of Identity Memory and Loss and the Short-Story Cycle

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aut.embargoYesen_NZ
aut.filerelease.date2025-09-30
aut.thirdpc.containsNoen_NZ
dc.contributor.advisorGeorge, James
dc.contributor.authorPaine, Jeanette Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-29T23:50:36Z
dc.date.available2022-09-29T23:50:36Z
dc.date.copyright2022
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2022-09-29T22:10:35Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis consists of the creative work of The Handbag Tales, a short-story cycle of 10 interlinked tales based on the everyday objects found inside women’s handbags and the backstories of how they came to be kept or found within them. The thesis and exegesis will explore themes of secrecy, identity, memory and loss in key periods of women’s lives, sometimes using handbags as a plot device or motif, treating the highly personalised contents carried within them as a narrative vehicle. The exegesis, It’s in the Bag: stories of identity, memory and loss and the short-story cycle, discusses the creative work The Handbag Tales and the work’s genre, the short-story cycle. It also looks at the evolution of the woman’s handbag as more than a purely practical object, as a symbol of various perceptions of femininity, as a signifier of social and economic class and as an emotional talisman because of what – specifically and sometimes randomly – it carries.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/15488
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.titleIt’s in the Bag – Stories of Identity Memory and Loss and the Short-Story Cycleen_NZ
dc.typeThesisen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Theses
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Creative Writingen_NZ
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