The Memory Mines
dc.contributor.author | Lo, Evelyn Ka-Kwok | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-19T13:28:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-19T13:28:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-05-19 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2016-05-12 | |
dc.description.abstract | She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember. Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/10509 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.pending | false | |
dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
dc.title | The Memory Mines | en |
dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
uws-etd.degree | Master of Architecture | en |
uws-etd.degree.department | Architecture (School of) | en |
uws-etd.degree.discipline | Architecture | en |
uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
uws.comment.hidden | This thesis is written in a novella format. I am the sole author of this text. There are no other sources I referred to specifically in writing this novella - 'specifically' being the key word. I did continual expose myself to a wide range of literature during my time of writing, but do not feel it necessary to include a bibliography as the list would be long and nonspecific. I did, however, include a note to the reader that credits a specific book for inspiration, and feel this is a sufficient reference and acknowledgement of source material. | en |
uws.contributor.advisor | McKay, Donald | |
uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Engineering | en |
uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
uws.published.country | Canada | en |
uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |