Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures

<p><em>Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures</em>, a collection of poetry and prose (creative non-fiction and fiction), reflecting themes of trauma, memory, psychic fragmentation and survival is told through hybrid narratives. The writing arises from my own multiple migrations from Taunggyi, Burma, to India and eventually to the United States of America. <em>Taunggyi Dreamer </em>is inspired by: my exile from my birth country, Burma, after the military coup of 1962; my resettlement as a stateless citizen in my ancestral home in India during my teen years; and my arrival to the United States of America in my thirties as a resident alien. The narratives are told through, in part, by ancestral female voices—grandmother and mother— but mostly through the daughter in woman-centered hybrid narratives. It is the community of women, in domestic and public spaces of the home and the world, in India/Burma and the diaspora, that helps define my creative style. I, too, like diasporic writers, use my hybrid sensibilities to create an aesthetic that, although not unique in terms of postcolonialism, is particularly mine; as a tricultural transplant, my writing vividly reflects the pluralistic ethos of an exile and a dislocated diasporic, but who, like George Lamming, also writes about the “pleasures of exile<em>.</em>”</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Singh, Singh Kaur

Contributors dc:contributor

• Patricia Killelea

• Poetry
• flash
• creative non-fiction
• fiction
• hybridity
• diaspora
• exile
• identity
• postcolonial feminism
• Taunggyi
• Burma
• Burmese
• Indian
• Asian American
• UP Michigan.
• Asian American Studies
• Creative Writing
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Nonfiction
• Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
• Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Women's Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/660

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.nmu.edu:theses-1692