Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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#1840

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#394

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According to Wikipedia, Shirley Geok-lin Lim is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. She was both the first woman and the first Asian person to be awarded Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her first poetry collection, Crossing The Peninsula, which she published in 1980. In 1997, she received the American Book Award for her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces.

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Published Works

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Published Works

Reading the Literatures of Asian America (1993) (77)
Japanese American Women's Life Stories: Maternality in Monica Sone's "Nisei Daughter" and Joy Kogawa's "Obasan" (1990) (55)
Futures for Hong Kong English (2000) (42)
Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands. (1997) (40)
Reading Back, Looking Forward: A Retrospective Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston (2008) (37)
Sibling Hybridities: The Case of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far and Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna (2007) (35)
Transnational Asian American literature : sites and transits (2006) (34)
Feminist and Ethnic Literary Theories in Asian American Literature (1993) (30)
The Strangeness of Creative Writing: An Institutional Query (2003) (22)
The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology (1993) (20)
Transnational Asia Pacific : gender, culture, and the public sphere (1999) (18)
Joss and Gold (2001) (16)
Among the White Moonfaces: Memoirs of a Nyonya Feminist (1996) (16)
Assaying the Gold: Or, Contesting the Ground of Asian American Literature (1993) (16)
Approaches to teaching Kingston's The woman warrior (1991) (16)
Semiotics, experience and the material self: An inquiry into the subject of the contemporary Asian woman writer (1990) (13)
Writing S.E/Asia in English : against the grain, focus on Asian English-language literature (1996) (13)
Biology : the living science (2000) (10)
Reconstructing Asian-American Poetry: A Case For Ethnopoetics (1987) (9)
Twelve Asian-American Writers in Search of Self-Definition (1986) (9)
Asian linkages in children's writing and writing for children (2010) (9)
Creative writing pedagogy for world Englishes students (2015) (8)
Writing Singapore : an historical anthology of Singapore literature (2009) (8)
24. The English-Language Writer in Singapore (1989) (7)
Semiotics, experience, and the material self: an inquiry into the subject of the contemporary Asian woman writer* (1990) (7)
Lore, Practice, and Social Identity in Creative Writing Pedagogy: Speaking with a Yellow Voice? (2009) (6)
English-Language Creative Writing in Hong Kong: Colonial Stereotype and Process (2001) (6)
Introduction The Postmodern Dilemma for Life Writing: Hybridising Hyphens (2007) (5)
The Troubled and Troubling Genre Life On-Going Writing or On-Going Life Writing (2009) (5)
Monsoon History: Selected Poems (1994) (5)
Among the white moon faces (1996) (4)
Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories (1997) (4)
Asian-American literature : an anthology (2000) (4)
English in Malaysia: Identity and the Market Place (2015) (4)
Embodied Memory and Memoir (2003) (4)
Singapore on My Mind: Fiona Cheong, Lydia Kwa and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Compare Notes (2002) (4)
Finding a Native Voice- Singapore Literature in English (1989) (3)
Mother's Shoes (1996) (3)
Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (1997) (3)
Writing for Asian Children: History, Fantasy and Identity (2009) (3)
The Center Can(not) Hold: American Studies and Global Feminism (2000) (3)
A conversation with Timothy Mo (2010) (2)
No Man's Grove (1984) (2)
The Native and the Diasporic: Owning America in Native American and Asian American Literatures (2006) (2)
My Mother Wasn't (1996) (2)
Up Against the National Canon: Women's War Memoirs from Malaysia and Singapore (1993) (2)
Crossing the peninsula & other poems (1980) (2)
Narrating Terror and Trauma: Racial Formations and “Homeland Security” in Ethnic American Literature (2010) (2)
Hegemony and "Anglo-American Feminism": Living in the Funny House (1993) (2)
The Shirley Lim Collection : Passport and other lives (2011) (1)
Malaysia and Singapore (1991) (1)
Asian Literatures in English (2020) (1)
Not waving, but drowning: Creativity and identity in diaspora writing (2001) (1)
The Woman Warrior: Her Planetary Asian American Imagination (2010) (1)
A Pot of Rice (2014) (1)
Money, Power, and Immigrant Sons in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker : Looking for the American Father (2016) (1)
The China Coda: Hegemons, Empires and Gaps in a Postcolonial Imaginary (2015) (1)
Third (2020) (1)
Two Dreams: New and Selected Poems. Shirley Geok-lin Lim. New York: Feminist Press, 1997. xx + 219 pages. $10.95 paper. (1999) (1)
Anna May Wong and Asian American Popular Culture (2016) (1)
Decolonizing the Malaysian Mind: Celebrating the Pioneering Achievement of Lloyd Fernando’s Cultural Politics (2018) (1)
Voices from the Hinterland: Plurality and identity in the national literatures in English from Malaysia and Singapore 1 (1988) (1)
Postcoloniality in Southeast Asia (2016) (0)
What Shall We Say When We Meet Again?; Bad Dream, Good Dream (2007) (0)
Featured Contributors (2015) (0)
Pomegranates and English Education (1996) (0)
David Wong Louie (1954 (2004) (0)
Welcome Presences, Unwelcome Absences (1990) (0)
Five New Poems (with Commentary by Nina Morgan) (2019) (0)
Introduction: Cross Wire: Asian American Literary Criticism (2004) (0)
Breaking Silence, An Anthology of Asian-American Poets. Ed. Joseph Bruchac. Greenfield Center, New York: The Greenfield Press, 1983. (1984) (0)
Why I Write (1984) (0)
Asian American Literature, January 1992–June 1996: An Annotated Bibliography (1997) (0)
A Belated Thank You (2015) (0)
Special Editor’s Note (2010) (0)
Home and the World, the Secret Author and the Reader (2004) (0)
That Child Who Smiles (1999) (0)
Anna's Faith (1986) (0)
Miné Okubo: A Memory of Genius (2004) (0)
Stop Already (2012) (0)
Four Poems from 1985 (2017) (0)
A Woman’s Work: Editing and Narrating Memoirs at the Feminist Press by Florence Howe (review) (2022) (0)
Interchanges : East/West Feminist Identities (1991) (0)
Introduction: The Cultures and Literatures of Micro-States (2001) (0)
Pantoun for Chinese Women (1991) (0)
A Home Somewhere (2000) (0)
The Shape of Transnational American Studies: Good and Excellent News (2011) (0)
I Look for Women (1982) (0)
In the City of Lionesses (2002) (0)
The man who has written a book (1998) (0)
Picture Bride. Cathy Song. Foreword by Richard Hugo. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1983. (1983) (0)
Noon at Five O'Clock: The Short Stories of Arthur Yap (2014) (0)
The Raw and the Cooked (2003) (0)
Sisters (1994) (0)
Critical Perspectives on Native American Fiction. Richard F. FleckAll My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures. Bonnie TuSmithMules and Dragons: Popular Cultural Images in the Selected Writings of African-American and Chinese-American Women Writers. Mary E. Young (1996) (0)
Shape Shifting the Profession: Individual and Collective Practice. (2002) (0)
American Higher Education (2020) (0)
The Fortune-Teller (1996) (0)
Expanding genre and identities in digital poems (2021) (0)
What the Ice Rink Says; Modern Life (2017) (0)
Reticence and Resistance: A Conversation (1996) (0)
We are all exiles ” : Exile and Place in the Poetry of Ee (2018) (0)
Another country & other stories (1982) (0)
The Scarlet Brewer and the Voice of the Colonized (2020) (0)
Lorna Dee Cervantes and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (1999) (0)
“You should not be invisible”: An Interview with Mitsuye Yamada (2014) (0)
Twenty Sixteen; Value; Malacca High School, A Commemoration; Missing Nyonya Poster (2018) (0)
Feeling Sorry , A Woman Speaks of Grandchildren , The Gate , and Pain (1984) (0)
Saving (2019) (0)
The Neighborhood, and: California Sun (2015) (0)
Prepositions, and: My Brain on Szymborska (2023) (0)
Rain in the Leaves (2018) (0)

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