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When We Find Homes: A Collection of Personal Essays

Ng, Joyce
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1398781078

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2014, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
There is a severe lack of Malaysian literature in English. Although having grown up in Malaysia, I read mostly American and British literature. Malaysian literature is almost completely unheard of in Malaysia, let alone anywhere else in the world. This project was an effort to discover Malaysian literature and to write some of my own. Over the course of three semesters, I read literature in English written by Malaysians and other cross-cultural authors. Through these readings, I learned the different ways authors wrote about their own cultures. I performed 45 minutes of creative nonfiction writing every day for 15 weeks. I wrote about my struggle for identity during my teenage years and my time here as a Malaysian Chinese in the U.S. When We Find Home is a collection of six personal essays which explores the issues of cultural identity and finding a place to belong.
Elizabeth Howard, Dr. (Advisor)
Varley O'Connor, Professor (Committee Member)
Natasha Levinson, Dr. (Committee Member)
Patrick Gallagher, Dr. (Committee Member)
85 p.
Asian Literature; Fine Arts; Language; Literature
malaysia; home; cultural identity; chinese; christian; creative nonfiction; personal essays; foreign literature

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  • Ng, J. (2014). When We Find Homes: A Collection of Personal Essays [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1398781078

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ng, Joyce. When We Find Homes: A Collection of Personal Essays. 2014. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1398781078.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ng, Joyce. "When We Find Homes: A Collection of Personal Essays." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1398781078

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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