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“Making Sense of Mess: Marginal Lives, Impossible Spaces”
No full textIn this issue of Anglistica, we invited contributions that investigate the idea of “mess,” at once physically tangible and intellectually slippery, in global and transnational cultural productions and social practices. Thus, we envision “mess” as piles of seemingly unorganized materials, unsanitized spaces, dirty interstices that refuse to be cleaned and systematized. Particularly fascinating was its potential impact on the study of what J.E. Muñoz broadly defined as “minoritarian subjects”: in fact, resistance to “normalcy” and the challenge to sanctioned symbolic “order” have been at the heart of late 20th century queer, ethnic, gendered, indigenous, and other identitarian studies. In addition, the notion of mess, messing-up, mash-ups, and morphing, both as theme and as cultural practice, may signal a productive gesture that rejects hierarchical organizing and linear/causal relations of value, thriving instead in simultaneity and precariousness, in overlapping and contested spaces and conflictual, even irreconcilable, dis/identifications
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Get PDFGallagher, Cathy; Hoover, Paula; Monahan, Sarah; Steel, Gwen; Sutton, Nina. (2004). Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/166258
On Being Diasporic: an Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim
No full textIntervista commentata alla scrittrice Shirley Geok-lin Lim sul concetto di diaspora e identità
“Survival -- to keep writing”: an interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim
No full textIn this e-mail interview conducted in 2016, author and scholar Shirley Geok-lin Lim addresses the changing social and political conditions in the United States. Lim discusses the affective relationship between aesthetics and politics in her work, the anxiety of multilingual stylistics, and the in-between nature of the transnation. She also reflects on the academic marginalization she has experienced as a result of her immigrant designation and subjectivity, as well as the indirect influence of China and Chineseness on her writing. Commenting on her memoir Among the White Moon Faces, Lim notes the difficulty of titling, and addresses the impact of anglophone literature upon her during her colonial Malaysian upbringing
“Survival – to keep writing”: An interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim
No full textIn this e-mail interview conducted in 2016, author and scholar Shirley Geok-lin Lim addresses the changing social and political conditions in the United States. Lim discusses the affective relationship between aesthetics and politics in her work, the anxiety of multilingual stylistics, and the in-between nature of the transnation. She also reflects on the academic marginalization she has experienced as a result of her immigrant designation and subjectivity, as well as the indirect influence of China and Chineseness on her writing. Commenting on her memoir Among the White Moon Faces, Lim notes the difficulty of titling, and addresses the impact of anglophone literature upon her during her colonial Malaysian upbringing
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Five New Poems (with Commentary by Nina Morgan)
Get PDFPublished for the first time in the Journal of Transnational American Studies , these new poems by Shirley Geok-lin Lim are accompanied by a commentary by JTAS 's Editor-in-Chief, Nina Morgan
Scrittura e identità in Among the White Moon Faces di Shirley Geok-lin Lim
No full textIl testo si sofferma sull'analisi della problematica femminile, dell'articolazione dell'identità e del rapporto tra donne e scrittura nel testo intitolato "Among the White Moon Faces" dell'autrice Shirley Geok-lin Lim
林连玉诗文中的大我与小我精神 (The Individualistic And Collectivist Elements Of Literary Works By Lim Lian Geok)
No full textMr. Lim Lian Geok (1901-1985) was granted as "the most important person in Chinese Community" in Malaysia by Professor Dr. Tay Lian Soo. He is revered for his hard works in Chinese education in history of Malaysia. In recent years, there are plenty studies focused on Mr. Lim Lian Geok in different point of views; however, there are only a few studies about his literary works. Therefore, this study is to analyse the central ideas of Mr. Lim Lian Geok literary works from two points of view: The individualistic and collectivist elements in his literary works. Mr. Lim Lian Geok's literary works are consisting of poems and essays. His individualistic element is related to his personal thoughts, ethical values, literary inspiration and revolutionary ideas, which will also influence him in his collectivist element performance. Throughout the content of Mr. Lim Lian Geok's poems and essays, this study is also to clarify the reason why Mr. Lim Lian Geok willing to stay in Malaysia
The Self, National Identity, and Sisterhood in Shirley Geok-lin Lim\ue2s Writings
No full textThis thesis aims to explore the shifting of identities in Shirley Geok-lin Lim\ue2s writings in terms of self, gender, and nation. In chapter one, I will focus on how the subject of Among the White Moon Faces, also called Shirley Geok-lin Lim, forms her ideal self. I will use Jane Gallop\ue2s idea of \ue2retroaction and anticipation\ue2 to examine the formation of the ideal self in the constant interactions between the narrated \ue2I\ue2 and the narrating \ue2I.\ue2 Chapter Two will focus on the oppositional relationship between national identity and nationalism in Lim\ue2s Joss and Gold. My discussion is to unveil the fact that the national identity of Li An, a Malaysian Chinese woman, faces challenges under the influence of patriotic ideologies and Confucian values. I will interpret Li An\ue2s Eurasian daughter, Suyin Yeh as an embodiment of national identity beyond race and culture by applying Homi Bhabha\ue2s notion of cultural hybridity. The third chapter will discuss sisterhood in Lim\ue2s second novel, Sister Swing. I argue that the relationships between women depicted in the novel remain confined to sexual and racial ideologies. The sisterhood between Wing Su Swee and her two sisters represents the shackle of female physical body in the patriarchal structure of Southeast Asia. After travelling to America, Swee\ue2s conflicts with the Afro-American professor, Mrs. Butler, the Puerto Rican businesswoman, Carmen Lopez, and her college classmate, Hong Nga, demonstrate the difference between the third world women and the first world women. I will use Gallop\ue2s notion of active participation to examine the two forms of sisterhood. The instance is Swee\ue2s efforts to know about America again through her eyes to build connections with the first world women
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'cultivated, / Wild, exotic': Nationalism and Internationalism in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Get PDFBorn in multicultural Malacca during British rule, educated there and later in Kuala Lumpur and Boston, a long-time resident of the USA and a visiting professor to many countries, Shirley Geok-lin Lim seems a transnational writer par excellence. Yet much of her later work involves looking back to Malacca, “at a loss here, / Loosening my grip on yesterday,” afraid of losing “[s]hades of father and mother.” She is the author of poems, short stories, novels and a memoir, as well as literary and social criticism. The memoir, Among the White Moon Faces , is subtitled, “An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands,” and the plural noun is notable. Concentrating on her poetry, this paper charts her shifting sense of identity as Malaccan, Malaysian, American and as a woman of Chinese heritage whose language is English, through “[s]peech which is sufficient enterprise,” even though in these late poems she can feel “unmoored” and sense “the gravity / of the unmade I.
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