Semester
Fall
Date of Graduation
2019
Document Type
MFA Creative Writing Thesis
Degree Type
MFA
College
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department
English
Committee Chair
Glenn Taylor
Committee Co-Chair
Mary Ann Samyn
Committee Member
Mary Ann Samyn
Committee Member
Gwen Bergner
Abstract
The Quiet Art of Mourning is a novel that captures the lives of masters and servants in Lahore, Pakistan. The themes that are featured in the manuscript include treatment minorities, class division, power dynamics, gender roles, relationships, politics, alienation and trauma. It is a novel about the growing tensions between Muslims and other minority groups in Pakistan. And amidst this, an ecocritical study of Lahore. A death of a city by the hands of its fervent seasons; a heatwave, flooding monsoon rains and the arrival of a new kind of fog (smog) in winter.
Recommended Citation
Javed, Kanza, "The Quiet Art of Mourning" (2019). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 3850.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3850
Embargo Reason
Permanent Embargo – MFA Creative Writing