Date of Award
Spring 5-28-2025
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English/Creative Writing
First Advisor
John Fulton
Second Advisor
Askold Melnyczuk
Third Advisor
Eileen Pollack
Abstract
Rohan Dias' thesis begins with a story, The Journal of Sayantan Sen, presented as the transcription of the journal of "the posthumously infamous Bengali painter," Sayantan Sen, discovered in 1937 by one W.A. Barker, a British explorer who found the mss on the "jungle floor" of one of the Andaman Islands off the coast of Burma."Notebook" is the story of Zanzibar, a florist with a crush on Lara whose husband Hussain is lying in a coma in a hospital."Fun at a Funeral" opens with Joyce learning that her mother has been pronounced dead. The story then follows the dead woman's family who seem determined to anaesthetize themselves with drink and hash as a way of avoiding feeling any genuine grief."Eye of the Beholder" brings us to an exhibit of photographs by the "cult director" known as Zedd. "A Conversation Between Lovers" relies on Dias' characteristic and almost unintentionally revealing humor.
Recommended Citation
Dias, Rohan N., "Promising Beginnings" (2025). Graduate Masters Theses. 892.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/892
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