You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar - Softcover

War, Pyae Moe Thet

 
9780349703015: You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349703019 ISBN 13: 9780349703015
Verlag: Dialogue Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

What does it mean to live in two cultures, never entirely feeling at home?

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PYAE MOE THET WAR is the author of the essay collection You've Changed. Born and raised in Yangon, she holds a BA from Bard College at Simon's Rock, and MA's from University College London and the University of East Anglia. She currently shares a home (and her food) with her dogs Gus and Missy. I Did Something Bad is her debut novel.

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In this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western feminism in an Asian home, and more, guiding us toward an expansive idea of what it means to be a Myanmar woman today.

What does it mean to be a Myanmar person - a baker, swimmer, writer and woman - on your own terms rather than those of the coloniser? These irreverent yet vulnerable essays ask that question by tracing the journey of a woman who spent her young adulthood in the US and UK before returning to her hometown of Yangon, where she still lives.

In You've Changed, Pyae takes on romantic relationships whose futures are determined by different passports, switching accents in American taxis, the patriarchal Myanmar concept of hpone which governs how laundry is done, swimming as refuge from mental illness, pleasure and shame around eating rice, and baking in a kitchen far from white America's imagination.

Throughout, she wrestles with the question of who she is ­- a Myanmar woman in the West, a Western-educated person in Yangon, a writer who refuses to be labelled a 'race writer.' With intimate and funny prose, Pyae shows how the truth of identity may be found not in stability, but in its gloriously unsettled nature.

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Verlag
Dialogue Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349703019
ISBN 13 
9780349703015
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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