Bibliograph

Names for light, a family history, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

Type

Label

Names for light, a family history, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Names for light

Oclc number

1264088567

Responsibility statement

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

Sub title

a family history

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

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