Among the white moon faces : [memoirs of an Asian American woman] / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lim, Shirley.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Asian American women--Biography.

Asian American women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2010.

Summary:

The first woman and Asian to win the Commonwealth Prize, Among the White Moon Faces is an autobiography that chronicles the confusion of personal identity-linguistically, culturally, and sexually. The English-educated child of a Chinese father and a Peranakan mother, Lim grew up in post-colonial Malaysia with a tangle of names, languages and roles. The deep-seated, cross-cultural ironies of this fragmented identity also echo throughout this memoir; from the love-hate relationship she shares with a neglectful father and an estranged mother, the pain of hunger suffered during childhood, to her A

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Title; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Prologue; Part One; 1. Splendor and Squalor; 2. War and Marriage; 3. Geographies of Relocation; Part Two; 4. Pomegranates and English Education; 5. Dancing Girl Scholar; 6. Turning Woman; Part Three; 7. Outside the Empire; 8. Black Bird Singing; 9. Two Lives; Part Four; 10. Immigrant Mother; 11. Moving Home; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9789814484428

9814484423

OCLC:

836400914