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Author Lim, Shirley.

Title Among the white moon faces : an Asian-American memoir of homelands / Shirley Geok-lin Lim.

Imprint New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1997.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  811.54 L628Bl 1997    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st pbk. ed.
Description 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series The cross-cultural memoir series
Cross-cultural memoir series.
Contents pt. 1. -- [ch.] 1. Splendor and squalor -- [ch.] 2. War and marriage -- [ch.] 3. Geographies of relocation -- pt. 2. -- [ch.] 4. Pomegranates and English education -- [ch.] 5. Dancing girl scholar -- [ch.] 6. Turning woman -- pt. 3. -- [ch.] 7. Outside the Empire -- [ch.] 8. Black bird singing -- [ch.] 9. Two lives -- pt. 4. -- [ch.] 10. Immigrant mother -- [ch.] 11. Moving home.
Summary Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her girlhood in war-torn Malaysia and her later life in the US, where she moves from a numbing alienation as a dislocated Asian woman to a new sense of identify as an Asian-American woman: professor, wife, mother, and writer.
Subject Lim, Shirley.
Women poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Asian American women -- Biography.
Lim, Shirley. (OCoLC)fst00086534
Asian American women. (OCoLC)fst00818606
Women poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01178325
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
ISBN 1558611797
9781558611795

 
    
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