HOW TO SAY MY NAME IN THUNDER
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shankar, Subramanian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Suneja, Shilpi | |
| dc.contributor.department | English | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-20T22:36:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-20T22:36:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10125/110172 | |
| dc.subject | Asian American studies | |
| dc.subject | Creative writing | |
| dc.subject | Literature | |
| dc.subject | Asian American women scholars | |
| dc.subject | female friendships | |
| dc.subject | islamophobia | |
| dc.subject | Ivy-league admissions | |
| dc.subject | meritocracy | |
| dc.subject | queer relations | |
| dc.title | HOW TO SAY MY NAME IN THUNDER | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | The creative work in this dissertation is suppressed in the UH institutional repository, ScholarSpace, https:// scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/. Inquiries about the creative work should be made to Shilpi Suneja. This creative dissertation is a novel titled HOW TO SAY MY NAME IN THUNDER that dramatizes an admissions scandal at an Ivy League university, its aftermath, and the academic journeys of three Asian American women at the institution thereafter. When Meera Singh erroneously admits an inadmissible applicant into the Graduate School of Design, she has to face the faculty and the deans for a hearing and face the prospect of losing her dream job. After a surprising turn of events and amid fears of backlash from irate parent groups and media, Winter Wang—Singaporean, 40-ish, and a resident of the Admission Office's "do-not-respond" folder—comes to Houghton. As soon as she lands, Winter leans on Meera, the only person in all of Houghton who's been kind to her (at least on email) for intellectual, emotional, and moral support. But Meera is a house of cards on the verge of collapse: her relationship with the economics professor is on the rocks, and her colleagues at the writing program hate her stories. Then there is Afrooz, a 20-something Arab woman, a favorite of the program, who is not happy about having to share her funding with Winter. At a school that values excellence above all else, the women attempt to outdo each other in academics and in love with disastrous consequences, questioning the idea of merit and the emotional cost of meritocracy. | |
| dcterms.extent | 25 pages | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.publisher | University of Hawai'i at Manoa | |
| dcterms.rights | All UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner. | |
| dcterms.type | Text | |
| local.identifier.alturi | http://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:12342 |