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Names for light : a family history / Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.Y5 Z46 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myint, Thirii Myo Kyaw, 1989- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Myint, Thirii Myo Kyaw, 1989-.
- Myint, Thirii Myo Kyaw.
- Myint, Thirii Myo Kyaw, 1989---Family.
- Authors, American--21st century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Families.
- Burma.
- Families--Burma--Biography.
- Immigrants--United States--Biography.
- Immigrants.
- United States.
- Burma--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 257 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family's history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and racism. In spare, lyric paragraphs framed by white space, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint explores home, belonging, and identity by revisiting the cities in which her parents and grandparents lived. As she makes inquiries into their stories, she intertwines oral narratives with the official and mythic histories of Myanmar. But while her family's stories move into the present, her own story--that of a writer seeking to understand who she is--moves into the past, until both converge at the end of the book"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Leymyethna
- Gayan
- Denver
- Sittwe
- II. Leymyethna
- Yangon
- Minbu
- South Bend
- III. Hinthada
- Madrid
- IV. Hinthada
- Providence.
- ISBN:
- 9781644450611
- 1644450615
- OCLC:
- 1264088567
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