One Day, Another
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This thesis considers protagonists in states of limitation, distress and impenetrableness. My work moves between the real and the lyrical as a means of considering the potentials available in states of emotional and material restraint. Volume I is a collection of lyrical short stories and prose poems. Volume II shifts sketches a generational novel which gives voice to Nair migrants to the Malayan peninsula from World War II to the early 2000s. It is similarly invested in what is reaped for the individual and the collective under states of significant duress.