[PDF] Among The White Moonfaces eBook

Author : Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9814484423

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The 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 Lim
Publisher : Feminist Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781558611443

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Describes Lim's childhood in Malaysia after her mother abandons her family, and her journey into womanhood as an Asian American with professional, family, and cultural concerns

Author : Betty Louise Bell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806127743

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Faces in the Moon is the story of three generations of Cherokee women, as viewed by the youngest, Lucie, a woman who has been able to use education and her imagination to escape the confines of her rootless, impoverished upbringing. When her mother’s illness summons her back to Oklahoma, Lucie finds herself confronted with the legacy of a childhood she has worked hard to separate from her adult self. Her mother, Gracie, and her maternal aunt, Auney, are members of the Cherokees’ "lost generation," women who rejected the traditional rural ways in search of a more glamorous life as autonomous working women.

Author : Shirley Mow
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558614659

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These 21 dynamic articles by Chinese women scholars explore the limitations on women's lives in premodern China, detail their involvement in the great political movements of the 20th century and examine how new laws have improved women's status, yet have left them open to exploitation as China enters the global economy. With statistics and reports otherwise unavailable, they give a refreshing outlook on China's women that is breathtaking both for the problems it confronts and for the spirit of struggle it embodies.

Author : Bob Crelin
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 160734288X

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Describes the moon's phases as it orbits the Earth every twenty-nine days using rhyming text and cut-outs that illustrate each phase.

Author : Karen White
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399584641

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Revisit the beginning of New York Times bestselling author Karen White’s signature style in one of her earliest novels—a story about a love that defies time... IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she’s overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have been waiting for years and offers an old photograph of a woman with Laura’s face. Soon afterwards, when a lunar eclipse inexplicably thrusts Laura back in time to Civil War Georgia, she finds herself fighting not just for her heart, but for her very survival…. Includes an exclusive preview of Karen White’s next hardcover Praise for Karen White “There is a rhythm to the writing of Karen White. It has a pace, a beat, a cadence that is all its own.”—The Huffington Post “The ultimate voice of women’s fiction.”—Fresh Fiction “White’s dizzying carousel of a plot keeps those pages turning, so much so that the book can—and should be—finished in one afternoon.”—Oprah.com “This is storytelling of the highest order: the kind of book that leaves you both deeply satisfied and aching for more.”—Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author

Author : Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9811650217

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This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary products of selected writers of the tradition in the genres of drama, fiction, and poetry, from its beginnings to the present, focusing mainly on the postcolonial themes of ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism, which are central to the creativity and imagination of these writers. The book explores the works of not just the established writers of the tradition but also those who have received little critical attention to date but who are equally gifted, such as Adibah Amin, Edward Dorall, Rehaman Rashid, and Huzir Suleiman. The chapters collectively address the challenges and achievements of writers in the English language in a country where English is widely used in daily life and yet marginalised in the creative domain to elevate the status of writings in the national language, i.e., Bahasa Malaysia. The book will demonstrate that in spite of such recurrent neglect of the medium, Malaysia has produced a number of outstanding writers in the language, who are comparable in creativity and craftsmanship to writers of other Anglophone traditions. The book will be of interest to readers and researchers of Malaysian literature, postcolonial literatures, minority literatures, gender studies, and Southeast Asian studies.

Author : Rajini Srikanth
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813529660

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This anthology covers writings by Asian Americans in all genres, from the early twentieth century to the present. Some sixty authors of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Southeast Asian American origin are represented, with an equal split between male and female writers. The collection is divided into four sections-memoir, fiction, poetry, and drama-prefaced by an introductory essay from a well-known practitioner of that genre: Meena Alexander on memoir, Gary Pak on fiction, Eileen Tabios on poetry, and Roberta Uno on drama. The selections depict the complex realities and wide range of experiences of Asians in the United States. They illuminate the writers' creative responses to issues as diverse as resistance, aesthetics, biculturalism, sexuality, gender relations, racism, war, diaspora, and family.