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advisor
Mike, Johnson
author
Varma, Suneal
2011-09-12T22:19:08Z
2011-09-12T22:19:08Z
2010
https://hdl.handle.net/10292/2057
The exegesis explores diverse themes, as it probes into the magical realism of ghosts and dreams, negotiates with the dead, understands how writing is a form of narrative therapy, stretches the English language, relates the immigrant experience and is a narrative on the narrative of Snakes, Cows and Avocado Sandwiches, which is, a collection of short stories and poems inspired by a mother’s life and paradoxically written after her death in a bid to keep the family history up-to-date and, a therapeutic indulgence on the author’s part, an incidental/occupational hazard of autobiographies.
[Note: the creative component is embargoed until 28 February 2014]
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Diverse themes; Narrative therapy
Snakes, Cows and Avocado Sandwiches
Thesis
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