ABSTRACT
Chapter Four applies the same approach of comparison and contrast utilized in Chapter Three, except that it addresses higher-level social scales. Valerie’s identifications with religious, ethnic, class and regional groups constituting the Malaysian nation are examined and also her discussion of Malaysia. How does she view herself with regard to these axes of identification and their intersections? And does her positionality here also reflect axes discussed in Chapter Three such as gender and generation? This chapter’s text, as in the previous, is driven by what Valerie actually voices. The axes of identification from Valerie’s narrations are identified and her perspectives compare and contrast against those of the narratives from the others. Once this comparison is finished, external scholarship layers in more detail and context to what interviewees say.
