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"Shirley Geok-lin Lim has written a work of rare clarity and dynamism about identity, location, and the various educations a brave and serious person can achieve in a many-stranded world. Feisty, intense, and canny, this memoir is richly nuanced in both aesthetic and analytic values, [and] fascinating in its dialogues between an individual and her political and social experiences."
- Rachel Blau Duplessis, professor of English, Temple University, and author of The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice
"Lim looks back on her early days of growing up always aware of her ‘otherness’ in this gripping, courageous memoir. In these days of increasing racial polarity, this is a voice that must be heard."
- Mitsuye Yamada, founder and coordinator of the MultiCultural Women Writers (MCWW) and author of Camp Notes and Other Poems |
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About the Author
Shirley Geok-lin Lim was born in Malacca, Malaysia. She went to the United
States as a Fulbright and Wien International Scholar in 1969, and completed her
Ph.D. in British and American Literature at Brandeis University in 1973. She has
published numerous papers and works to critical acclaim and her work has
appeared in journals such as New Literary History , Feminist Studies , Signs and
American Studies International .
Lim is currently professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lim is also recognized as a creative writer. Her first collection of poems, Crossing
the Peninsula (1980), received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She is also the
author of three books of short stories and a memoir, Among the White Moon
Faces (1996), which received the 1997 American Book Award for non-fiction.
Her first novel, Joss and Gold (Feminist Press, 2001), has been welcomed by
Rey Chow as an "elegantly crafted tale [that] places Lim among the most
imaginative and dexterous storytellers writing in the English language today."
Link to her other book(s)
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