Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes

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As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Born: December 27, 1944 (age 80)

Bio: Shirley Geok-lin Lim was born in Malacca Malaysia. She is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of poems, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a woman.

Known for:

Among the white moon faces (1996)
Joss and Gold (2002)
One World of Literature (1993)
Monsoon History (1994)
What the fortune teller didn't say (1998)

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