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This fish is fowl : essays of being /
In This Fish Is Fowl Xu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary "glocalized" American life. Xu's quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | American lives.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- To be American
- Why I stopped being Chinese
- Citizenship
- BG: the significant years
- Default home
- Letter from America
- Winter moon
- The summers of my discontent
- The crying city
- Typhoon mum
- Maternity leave
- My mother's story
- Mum and me
- Precarious precision
- Journeys through past times: a Norwich narrative
- Home base
- And then, filial time
- Off-season with snake
- Waiting women
- For as long as we both shall live
- Feminism and faith
- On being fowl
- Concubine love
- A ledge, a nun
- The English of my story
- Ambition game
- The book that saved my writing life
- To loaf, or how not to write a CV
- The door is close
- By any other name.