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Cargando... Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series) (1996)por Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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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 A No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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