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Brown Girl Chromatography

Abstract

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This poetry manuscript is based on the experiences of a Bangladeshi-born American female. The narrator of these poems navigates the conflict between her two cultural identities while growing up as a first generation immigrant in the United States. This creative work interrogates issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in post-9/11 America. This collection, written as a memoir-in-verse, draws from pop cultural icons and personal experiences in order to build a narrative arc that spans from the Bangladeshi-American female's birth to her mid-twenties adulthood.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
MFA
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Creative Writing
Department dc:contributor.department
English
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2018

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Bhowmik, Anuradha
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Meitner, Erika S.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Mann, Jeffrey A.
  • Roy, Lucinda H.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. Some uses of this item may be deemed fair and permitted by law even without permission from the rights holder(s), or the rights holder(s) may have licensed the work for use under certain conditions. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights holder(s).

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:15731
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/115510

Chain of custody

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Bhowmik, Anuradha. Brown Girl Chromatography. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/115510