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Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
ISBN: 9781558611795 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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....
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 woma...
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87,90 zł |
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After the Last Ship: A Post-Colonial Reconstruction of Diaspora
ISBN: 9783034311342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. After the Last Ship illustrates the author s own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of mixed race . She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960 s and 1970 s and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique...
After the Last Ship illustrates the author s own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India a...
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343,39 zł |
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Transnational Asia Pacific: Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780252068096 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Provides a transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region.
Provides a transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region...
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108,87 zł |
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Walking Backwards: New Poems
ISBN: 9780982696804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Walking Backwards is about making a home when you are a nomad. It is about travel and restlessness and how endlessly absorbing the idea of home can be when we keep losing sight of it.
Walking Backwards is about making a home when you are a nomad. It is about travel and restlessness and how endlessly absorbing the idea of home can be...
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65,14 zł |
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The Irreversible Sun
ISBN: 9780991074266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Lim's poems capture the spirit of California with beauty and insight."--Jon Parrish Peede, editor, Virginia Quarterly Review "Shirley Lim's poems sing with the defiance of Blake and Yeats, clapping hands 'for every tatter in our mortal dress.' The song is fierce, the vision incisively clear-eyed--supremely mature, an unsentimental perception of humanity and nature. The Irreversible Sun's song soars even in direst loss."--Anca Vlasopolos, author of Cartographies of Scale (and Wing) "Shirley Lim's poetry simultaneously puzzles and clarifies. These poems are rich in sense of place and... "Lim's poems capture the spirit of California with beauty and insight."--Jon Parrish Peede, editor, Virginia Quarterly Review "Shirley Lim's poem... |
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65,14 zł |
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Reading the Literatures of Asian America
ISBN: 9780877229360 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Presents a collection of essays that examines Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of Ping Chong. This book addresses the work of writers with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, East Indian, and Pacific Island ancestry.
Presents a collection of essays that examines Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of P...
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145,18 zł |
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What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say: American Religious Life / John Corrigan
ISBN: 9780931122910 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in Malaysia, immigration to America, and travel throughout the world, and affirmations of motherhood and maturity in the New World. From her background as a Malaysian Chinese later assimilated into Western culture, she has emerged with her own voice, combining bittersweet laughter and realistic affirmation. This unique voice establishes her as an important poet. Here are the lines of loss--of family, country, self--yet what is lost is found, and these poems probe a woman's many and changing truths in...
Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in Malaysia, immigration to America, and travel throughout ...
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47,71 zł |
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In Praise of Limes
ISBN: 9780999167878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,44 zł |
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