Shirley Lim

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1) Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands

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English

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim's memoir is a courageously frank and deeply affecting account of a Malaysian girlhood and of the making of an Asian-American woman, writer, and teacher. With insight, candor, and grace, Lim reveals the material poverty and violence of her childhood in colonized and then war-torn Malaysia after her father's business fails and her mother abandons the family, leaving Shirley to travel the road toward womanhood alone. Lim's decision...

2) Joss and Gold: A Novel

Author

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin

Language

English

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At the center of this engaging "un-love" story is Li An, a smart and strong-willed Malaysian woman of Chinese descent. The conflicts that surround Li An in the politically charged atmosphere of Kuala Lumpur in 1969 intersect with her own internal contradictions: although she supports her nation's struggle to build its own identity after decades of British colonial rule, she cannot renounce her love for the English poetry that she teaches. And although...

3) Among the white moon faces: an Asian-American memoir of homelands

Author

Lim, Shirley

Series

Cross-cultural memoir

Publisher

Feminist Press at the City University of New York

Pub. Date

1996

Language

English

4) Yue bai de lian: yi wei Ya yi Meiguo ren de jia yuan hui yi lu = Among the white moon faces : an Asian-American memoir of homelands

Author

Lim, Shirley

Publisher

fa xing Cheng bang wen hua

Pub. Date

2001

Language

中文

5) The forbidden stitch: an Asian American women's anthology

Publisher

Calyx Books

Pub. Date

[1989]

Language

English

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"Winner of the American Book Award, this book represents, as Mayumi Tsutakawa puts it in the introduction, 'a fine diversity of Asian American women who may claim their native soil in Oakland or Tucson or Manila or New Delhi. These writers and artists, many of them young or publishing for the first time, are breaking down a barrier to make a statement. Wherever they live, in an Asian ghetto or as the only Asian family in a suburban subdivision or...