The Way We Mourned
| dc.contributor.advisor | Norman, Howard | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Qian, Gu | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Creative Writing | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-22T06:18:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-22T06:18:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The five short stories in this collection illustrate the insistence of the imagination in a foreign country. The protagonists deal with loss and exile of the human spirit, as well as language. In “View of the Taft Bridge”, a Chinese painter befriends a panda in the National Zoo in America’s capital. In “Early June before the Millennium”, an illicit student and teacher relationship unveils a painful history of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. An adopted teenager finds her life unraveled at the presence of a new tenant who shares her ethnicity in “Girl in the Basement”. And the inertia of a housewife drives her desire to become a house cat, in “Catwoman”, until dream and reality become interchangeable. In “The Way We Mourned”, betrayal and memorial are closely knit in the wake of a close friend’s death. These stories search for connections to bridge “self” and “other”, as well as one’s present with a haunting past. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/M2349C | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18407 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Creative writing | en_US |
| dc.title | The Way We Mourned | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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