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Among the White Moon Faces : An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands by Shirley Geok-lin Lim (1997, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFeminist Press at T.H.E. City University of New York
ISBN-101558611797
ISBN-139781558611795
eBay Product ID (ePID)712077
Product Key Features
Book TitleAmong the White Moon Faces : an Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
Number of Pages248 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicWomen, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Asia / General, Women's Studies
IllustratorYes
FeaturesReprint
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorShirley Geok-Lin Lim
Book SeriesThe Cross-Cultural Memoir Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-025428
Reviews"What sets Among the White Moon Faces apart is that Lim writes with such aching precision, revealing and insightfully analyzing her changing roles as woman, immigrant, scholar, and Other." -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "[Lim's] fascinating autobiography reads like a novel, with interesting stories stitched into the quilt of her life." -- Washington Post Book World "Lim's descriptions are both lyrical and precise whether they are of the heat, bougainvillea and crowds of her home in Malacca or the wintry climate, the packaged food, the self-conscious bohemianism of New England." -- Publishers Weekly "The Malaysian section is stunning: evocative writing bolstered by insights into colonialism, race relations, and the concept of the 'other'. . . . This is an entrancing memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews "[Lim] recounts her journey with a poet's eye for detail and a storyteller's gift for narrative." -- Ms. magazine " Among the White Moon Faces is an extraordinary memoir distinguished by a luminous intellect, painful honesty, lyricism, and humor--the work of a triumphant survivor." -- Hisaye Yamamoto, author of Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories "Shirley Geok-lin Lim has written a work of rare clarity and dynamism about identity, location, and the various educations a brave and serious person can achieve in a many-stranded world. Feisty, intense, and canny, this memoir is richly nuanced in both aesthetic and analytic values, fascinating in its dialogues between an individual and her political and social experiences." -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis, professor of English, Temple University, and author of The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice "Lim looks back on her early years of growing up always aware of her 'otherness' in this gripping, courageous memoir. In these days of increasing racial polarity, this is a voice that must be heard." -- Mitsuye Yamada, founder and coordinator of MultiCultural Women Writers (MCWW) and author of Camp Notes and Other Poems "A stunningly evocative narrative of the transculturation of an 'immigrant mother'. . . . Lim bathes the memorial legacies of her personal history in Malaysia and the subtle analysis of her Americanization in poetic language so luminescent that it is often just plain dazzling, and wrenching." -- Sidonie Smith, professor of English, comparative literature, and women's studies, SUNY Binghamton University, and author of Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body "Immigrants came to America bearing many fabulous gifts; among the most precious of these are their stories, which span decades, oceans, and continents, opening our minds and hearts to human possibilities we most otherwise never imagine. Shirley Geok-lin Lim's story is just such a gift, bringing us a rich weave of pain and triumphs she recounts her struggles to come to terms with herself as a homeland-bearing American." -- Elaine H. Kim, professor of Asian American studies and chair of ethnic studies, University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of Making Waves: Writings By and About Asian American Women, "What sets Among the White Moon Faces apart is that Lim writes with such aching precision, revealing and insightfully analyzing her changing roles as woman, immigrant, scholar, and Other." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "[Lim's] fascinating autobiography reads like a novel, with interesting stories stitched into the quilt of her life." --Washington Post Book World "Lim's descriptions are both lyrical and precise whether they are of the heat, bougainvillea and crowds of her home in Malacca or the wintry climate, the packaged food, the self-conscious bohemianism of New England." --Publishers Weekly "The Malaysian section is stunning: evocative writing bolstered by insights into colonialism, race relations, and the concept of the 'other'. . . . This is an entrancing memoir." --Kirkus Reviews "[Lim] recounts her journey with a poet's eye for detail and a storyteller's gift for narrative." --Ms. magazine "Among the White Moon Faces is an extraordinary memoir distinguished by a luminous intellect, painful honesty, lyricism, and humor--the work of a triumphant survivor." --Hisaye Yamamoto, author of Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories "Shirley Geok-lin Lim has written a work of rare clarity and dynamism about identity, location, and the various educations a brave and serious person can achieve in a many-stranded world. Feisty, intense, and canny, this memoir is richly nuanced in both aesthetic and analytic values, fascinating in its dialogues between an individual and her political and social experiences." --Rachel Blau DuPlessis, professor of English, Temple University, and author of The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice "Lim looks back on her early years of growing up always aware of her 'otherness' in this gripping, courageous memoir. In these days of increasing racial polarity, this is a voice that must be heard." --Mitsuye Yamada, founder and coordinator of MultiCultural Women Writers (MCWW) and author of Camp Notes and Other Poems "A stunningly evocative narrative of the transculturation of an 'immigrant mother'. . . . Lim bathes the memorial legacies of her personal history in Malaysia and the subtle analysis of her Americanization in poetic language so luminescent that it is often just plain dazzling, and wrenching." --Sidonie Smith, professor of English, comparative literature, and women's studies, SUNY Binghamton University, and author of Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body "Immigrants came to America bearing many fabulous gifts; among the most precious of these are their stories, which span decades, oceans, and continents, opening our minds and hearts to human possibilities we most otherwise never imagine. Shirley Geok-lin Lim's story is just such a gift, bringing us a rich weave of pain and triumphs she recounts her struggles to come to terms with herself as a homeland-bearing American." --Elaine H. Kim, professor of Asian American studies and chair of ethnic studies, University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of Making Waves: Writings By and About Asian American Women
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThe winner of the 1996 American Book Award: a "fascinating autobiography" from an award-winning Asian-American female author about her journey growing up in war-torn Malaysia to finding herself as a writer in the US (The Washington Post Book World). With insight, candor, and grace, Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her path from her poverty-stricken childhood in war-torn Malaysia to her new and exciting yet uncertain womanhood in America. Grappling to secure a place for herself in the United States, she is often caught between the stifling traditions of the old world and the harsh challenges of the new. But throughout her journey, she is sustained by her "warrior" spirit, gradually overcoming her sense of alienation to find a new identity as an Asian American woman: professor, wife, mother, and, above all, an impassioned writer. In Among the White Moon Faces, Lim offers a memorable rendering of immigrant women's experience and a reflection upon the homelands we leave behind, the homelands we discover, and the homelands we hold within ourselves. "What sets Among the White Moon Faces apart is that Lim writes with such aching precision, revealing and insightfully analyzing her changing roles as woman, immigrant, scholar, and Other." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Lim's descriptions are both lyrical and precise." --Publishers Weekly "Evocative writing bolstered by insights into colonialism, race relations, and the concept of the 'other'. . . . This is an entrancing memoir." --Kirkus Reviews, 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 in 1968 to leave Malaysia and the man she loves for a Fulbright Scholarship at Brandeis University marks a crucial turning point in her life. Grappling to secure a place for herself in the United States, Lim is often caught between the stifling traditions of the old world and the harsh challenges of the new. But throughout her journey, she is sustained by her "warrior" spirit. Very gradually, and often painfully, she moves from a numbing alienation as a dislocated Asian woman to a new sense of identity as an Asian American woman: professor, wife, mother of a son she determines to raise as an American, and, above all, an impassioned writer., "Lim recounts her journey with a poet's eye for detail and a storyteller's gift for narrative."-- Ms.
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