Shirley Lim Collection
Author: Shirley Lim
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Published: 2011-06-15
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9814484377
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Author: Shirley Lim
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Published: 2011-06-15
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9814484377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Published: 2011-05-15
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9814484423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 Anglophile education and the loneliness of cultural displacement. Lim eventually finds reconciliation in her perpetual exile, using the solace of writing to create a sense of place and to counter the pull of ancient ghosts.
Author: Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Published: 2011-04-15
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9814484431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe novel is set in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, against a backdrop of political turmoil and social changes. Married to wealthy, conservative Henry, English literature graduate Li An is torn between the comforting lull of a secure world and the seductive erotism of the unknown, foreign spaces. When tragedy strikes on the personal and societal levels, Li An and her young friends find their lives turned upside down, and each must make decisions that will have far-reaching repercussions. Masterfully evoking the passions and struggles across three nations and decades, this book weaves a poignant fabric from the complex threads of human identity, friendships, and gender relations, all of which are utterly inextricable from the others.
Author: Shirley Jennifer Lim
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0814751938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time. In A Feeling of Belonging, Lim highlights the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960. This period marks a crucial generation—the first in which American-born Asians formed a critical mass and began to make their presence felt in the United States. Though they were distinguished from previous generations by their American citizenship, it was only through these seemingly mundane “American”activities that they were able to overcome two-dimensional stereotypes of themselves as kimono-clad “Orientals.” Lim traces the diverse ways in which these young women sought claim to cultural citizenship, exploring such topics as the nation's first Asian American sorority, Chi Alpha Delta; the cultural work of Chinese American actress Anna May Wong; Asian American youth culture and beauty pageants; and the achievement of fame of three foreign-born Asian women in the late 1950s. By wearing poodle skirts, going to the beach, and producing magazines, she argues, they asserted not just their American-ness, but their humanity: a feeling of belonging.
Author: Shirley Lim
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9789832737438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shirley Lim
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781439901212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique collection of essays explores the diversity of Asian American literature from the 19th century to the present.
Author: Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2018-08-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1936932334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work. The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim’s childhood to the liberating, but confusing and often harsh United States of her adulthood. Her memory is undiluted by nostalgia, her ear is perfectly tuned to the voices of both her old country and her new, and her eye is sharp to the special dilemmas faced by girls and women.
Author: Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 705
ISBN-13: 9971694581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive historical anthology of English-language literary works from Singapore. It attempts to place the texts that have imagined the territory and the people who are now recognizably Singaporean in a historical narrative, to be read, studied, critiqued and treasured.
Author: Shirley Lim
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780982696804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoems.
Author: Shirley Lim
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780395588802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne World of Literature addresses students' concerns about social relevance in their reading, and their growing interest in the literature of other cultures. This provocative anthology brings together fiction, poetry, and drama by twentieth-century authors from around the world.