A scheduled return

Abstract

A Scheduled Return is a fictional novel written in the first-person perspective, with most of the text in the past tense, switching to the present in leaps in time to delve into the human unconscious experience, through the experiences of the protagonist. This is a hero’s quest, a journey of friendship, and a love story wrapped in elements of fantasy and the spiritual world. This work is experimental and includes topics of race, social divisions, heritage, hate crimes, as well as fantasy, love, rebirth, and many more deep themes. Poetry is also found in some parts of the novel to express the feelings and mental situation of the main character in relation to her circumstances. Authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson, Rudolfo Anaya, Tony Morrison, and Nalo Hopkinson have influenced my ideas in the development of this work. But also, Geraldine Heng, Sigmund Freud, and Jeffrey Weinstock, the latter three literary theorists, helped me to design the sophisticated and psychoanalytical part of the novel, marked by its characteristic ambiguity.