Nations Imagined, Nations Lived: A Collection of Essays
| dc.contributor.advisor | Denevi, Timothy | |
| dc.contributor.author | Johri, Aditya | |
| dc.creator | Johri, Aditya | |
| dc.date | 2019-04-16 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-02T16:57:42Z | |
| dc.description | This thesis has been embargoed for 5 years and will not be available until April 2024 at the earliest. | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis is a collection of essays that portray my experiences with becoming changing nationalities, becoming a citizen of America and relinquishing my Indian citizenship. Beginning with the process of applying for citizenship, I examine how the transformation in nationality shaped my thinking and my viewpoints related to what it is to belong to a nation, and how does one express their relationship with a nation. The essays also look at my country of birth and the places where I grew up from a perspective of someone who was changing their citizenship. These essays capture the narrator‘s ambivalence with the citizenship process as well as living life with change in citizenship status – if what holds nations together is imagination, what is the relationship between what is imagined and what is lived? | |
| dc.description.embargo | 2024-04-16 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11541 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Identity | |
| dc.subject | Citizenship | |
| dc.subject | Nationalism | |
| dc.subject | America | |
| dc.subject | India | |
| dc.subject | Immigration | |
| dc.title | Nations Imagined, Nations Lived: A Collection of Essays | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Creative Writing | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | George Mason University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Master's | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing |