HYSTERICAL DAYDREAMING : Personal Narrative of Malaysian Youths' Schooling Experiences

by Azlina Abdul Aziz & Grace Chang Siew Yeng

Publisher - Penerbit UKM

Category - General Academics

This book is a collection of personal narratives that examine school cultures which can be hysterical, alienating, heart-breaking, punishing, empowering, and enlightening. Each narrator had chosen to write his or her personal narrative that he or she finds compelling and unforgettable. In these readings, we will hear of escaping a dull class through daydreaming, receiving an unwanted attention from the opposite sex, witnessing real and imagined hysteria, playing traditional vs. modern games, suffering from a debilitating skin condition, challenging one’s limited view of oneself, failing to live up to parents’ expectation, being alienated and bullied by friends, encountering an accident during a school trip, a school break trip abroad which could potentially go wrong, and discovering a passion by colouring the world one face at a time. In these stories of their schooling experiences, the narrators may have learnt a valuable lesson, remained scarred or have begun the process of healing emotionally and physically, learned to value their worth, discovered a lifelong passion or continue to be perplexed by the most mysterious ailment that continue to plague mainly our school girls and also our boys. This collection of personal narratives aims to interrogate, reaffirm or challenge positive or negative Malaysian school culture.

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