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Wallace, Daniel. Imperfect speakers. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T36H4H36

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TitleImperfect speakers
NameWallace, Daniel (author); Mansbach, Adam (chair); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2011
Other Date2011-01 (degree)
SubjectCreative Writing
Extentii, 141 p.
DescriptionImperfect Speakers is a novel set in Taiwan, about an English young professional, Robyn Anglesea, who hopes to abandon her stressful existence back in London for a more relaxed ex-pat life in the city of Taipei, but, in the process of making that new life successful, encounters many new conflicts with morality, identity and globalization, meeting examples of Taiwanese society at its most superficial and its most profound. Her
failures to deal with these situations lead her into greater troubles, never understanding, until the novel’s climax, that her own attitude to the world is at the root of many of her difficulties. The novel comments on several canonical travel texts, such as The Sun Also Rises and A Passage to India, and uses the contemporary experience of teaching English in Asia as a lens for re-examining their themes. The novel is not yet finished: here is included the first thirty five pages (the opening chapter) of the latest draft, re-written with the feedback from my thesis advisor and classmates taken into consideration, and a little over a hundred pages of the previous draft.
NoteM.F.A.
Noteby Daniel Wallace
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T36H4H36
Languageeng
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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