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“Survival -- to keep writing”: an interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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posted on 2023-06-09, 11:29 authored by Joe Upton
In this e-mail interview conducted in 2016, author and scholar Shirley Geok-lin Lim addresses the changing social and political conditions in the United States. Lim discusses the affective relationship between aesthetics and politics in her work, the anxiety of multilingual stylistics, and the in-between nature of the transnation. She also reflects on the academic marginalization she has experienced as a result of her immigrant designation and subjectivity, as well as the indirect influence of China and Chineseness on her writing. Commenting on her memoir Among the White Moon Faces, Lim notes the difficulty of titling, and addresses the impact of anglophone literature upon her during her colonial Malaysian upbringing.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

ISSN

1744-9855

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

4

Volume

54

Page range

556-564

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  • English Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-01-09

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-07-15

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-01-09

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