Lu Xun's short story "Benediction" (published in 1924) describes the return to his hometown of a quasi-autobiographical first-person narrator, who on arrival there remarks, "although this was my hometown, it was no longer my home." Ninety years later, the ethnically Chinese Malaysian author Ng Kim Chew wrote a story with the same title, which opens with a similar description of a return to a hometown: the adult narrator takes her father's ashes back to Kuala Lumpur-after the father had been prevented from returning to his Malaysian homeland for the entire latter half of his life. This essay uses these two stories as a starting point from which to explore a set of questions relating to homelands and diaspora.
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