Blair, John M.Morris, Franklin2009-06-102012-02-242009-05Morris, F. (2009). Tropics and meridians: Short stories (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/3280Tropics and Meridians is a collection of short fiction that spans time and place (West Africa in the 1990s, Texas in the 1970s, Kansas in the 1960s). While each protagonist is unique—a father, a teenage girl, a child, the college age son of a wealthy businessman— they are united by their need to free themselves of existential burdens: grief, isolation, religion, society, and the desire to find meaning in what may be a meaningless world.Text81 pages1 file (.pdf)enfictionsshort storiespostcolonialismAfricaexistentialismHonors College