Shirley Lim Collection
Four decades of stirring stories by one of the foremost figures in Asian literature
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2011
360 pages
978-981-4484-37-4 (ISBN)
Description
The short stories of Shirley Geok-lin Lim-born in Malacca, Malaysia and now Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of California-reflect the complex mosaic of her world. From the rich Peranakan tradition of her childhood to the harsh perplexity of American life in adulthood, her writing bristles with violence, dislocation and psychic dismemberment. This collection brings you Lim's most memorable stories, along with her most recent work-written over four decades-from the tumultuous 1960s all through to our present day. "e;Lim has too much raw energy and even brutal power to be confined by her craft...-The Straits Times (Singapore)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Short Stories
- Journey (1967)
- The Touring Company (1968)
- The Farmer's Wife (1972)
- Conversations of Young Women (1972)
- Two Dreams (1974)
- Transportation in Westchester (1976)
- A Pot of Rice (1977)
- Blindness (1977)
- All My Uncles (1978)
- Life's Mysteries (1981)
- Keng Hua (1981)
- The Good Old Days (1981)
- Mr Tang's Girls (1981)
- Haunting (1981)
- Another Country (1981)
- Native Daughter (1985)
- Thirst (1985)
- The Bridge (1985)
- Hunger (1990)
- Flash Fiction
- Celestina (2004)
- Love Story (2004)
- Mariana (2004)
- Sixty (2004)
- Poetry
- Crossing the Peninsula
- Monsoon History
- When
- I Remember
- Fear
- Reminder to the Young
- My Father
- Potions
- Mother's Song
- Shopping
- Daphne
- Queens
- Christmas in Exile
- Visiting Malacca
- To Li Po
- Translation from Other Languages
- Modern Secrets
- New England
- Thoughts from Abroad
- Winter Approaching
- Night Perspective
- Character-Sketch
- In Praise of a Master
- The Look Turned Inwards
- A Life of Imagination
- Imagine
- Thoughts on a Cezanne Still-Life
- To Marianne Moore
- The Painter
- Piano-Player
- The Radio
- Land-Turtle
- Shells
- Cactus
- In Defense of the Crooked
- No Alarms
- Night Vision
- Winter Air
- No One
- Dedicated to Confucius Plaza
- House-Hunting
- Danny Boy
- Smoking
- I would like
- Seven Years
- Images of Love Rejected
- Silence
- Divorce
- In Cities, Some Old Women
- Women's Dreams
- No Man's Grove
- Returning to the Missionary School
- Poetry 281Sugar-Cane
- My Father's Sadness
- Bukit China
- Inventing Mothers
- Song of an Old Malayan
- Poetry 287Pantoun for Chinese Women
- August Heat
- Summer Bugs
- I Look For Women
- Family Album
- I Defy You
- Chinese in Academia
- Lament
- What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say
- Learning English
- My Mother Wasn't
- Mother's Shoes
- Starlight Haven
- Ah Mah
- Father in China
- Black and White
- Father From Asia
- Watching
- Listening to the Singer
- Mango
- Lost Name Woman
- Greenhouse Effect in New York
- Riding into California
- The Whistler
- Romancing Bukowski
- Learning to Love America
- Starry Night
- In California with Neruda
- Oranges
- Scavenging on Double Bluff
- Seaweeds
- Fu
- Sweet-peas
- Burning Gold Paper
- The Mourning Months
- Past Danger and Drowning
- Bogie Hole
- Passport
- The Source
- Marble and Peonies
- Blossoming
- Seminar Series
- Feng Shui
- Generations and History
- Keeping Your Distance
- Solitary
- The Ex-Lover
- Glossary
- About the Author
