Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Författare till Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
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Verk av Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series) (1996) 84 exemplar
The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology (1989) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 66 exemplar
Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing (2000) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Approaches to Teaching Kingston's the Woman Warrior (Approaches to Teaching World Literature) (1991) 8 exemplar
Writing S.E./Asia in English: Against the Grain, Focus on Asian English-Language Literature (Skoob Pacifica Series) (1994) 2 exemplar
Listening to the Singer 1 exemplar
Poems (in No Other City - PANG) 1 exemplar
Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 917 exemplar
Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1944
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Malaysia
USA - Land (för karta)
- Malaysia
USA - Födelseort
- Malacca, Malaysia
- Utbildning
- University of Malaya (BA)
Brandeis University (PhD) - Yrken
- English professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Recensioner
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Statistik
- Verk
- 32
- Även av
- 8
- Medlemmar
- 388
- Popularitet
- #62,338
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 7
- ISBN
- 54
After gaining its independence in the 1960s, Malaysia experienced conflicts among its various ethnic groups. Li An, Lim’s major character, enjoyed friends who were Chinese, Malay, and Islamic, until violence brought tragedy. Looking for safety she had drifted into a marriage with another Chinese, but she was also attracted to an American Peace Corps volunteer, who appears as the “colonizer.” His return to his own country occupies second section of the novel, which I found a diversion from the main story. The last section focuses again on Li An and the successful life she and three other women create in Singapore—a life threatened by her own past.
Lim’s novel is engaging and a revelation to a reader like myself who knew nothing of Malaya history. Lim portrays the violent ethnic divisions from the inside is one of the strengths of the book. Sympathy for the different conflicting groups creates a special tension. Lim herself grew up in Malayasia and maintains close ties there while teaching at the University of California—Santa Barbara. Her own experience in Women’s Studies adds insight in her depiction of Li An and the problems she faces. This is a good, but not a great book.
A recommend read, especially for those wanting to understand more about the global range of women’s experiences.… (mer)