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    "pk": 42952,
    "title": "Past Spaces and Revisits in Transnational Poetry: The Sojourning Returnee of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Do You Live In?",
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    "abstract": "This essay explores the  shifting vantage-point of a temporary returnee and an observant  sojourner in the poetry of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim. Situating Lim’s  recent collection, \nDo You Live In?\n (2015) both in the context of  her renewed migrations to different places in Asia and within a  widening transnational project of reconceptualizing traditional  dichotomies of the diasporic, a critical discussion of her  latest poetry enables us to trace how reflections on memory and place  in a world of growing global change and exchanges can contribute to an  awareness of the everyday experiences of the transnational. The lyric  form allows Lim to express the emotional experience  of the moment, and the collection as a whole consequently produces a  juxtaposition of divergent emotions: snapshots of returns and the  reordering of memory. While the bounded self is located in what Lim  terms a “place of nomadism,” the heteroglossia of individual  lyrics expresses the multiplicity of influences and their  re-appropriation. In her seemingly most localized poems, personal  memories encounter – and rip apart – heritage nostalgia to engage  self-consciously with transnational experience.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Lim, Shirley Geok-lin"
        },
        {
            "word": "Southeast Asia in literature"
        },
        {
            "word": "Postcolonial poetry"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transnationalism in literature"
        },
        {
            "word": "Peranakans in literature"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Festschrift: The Poetry and Poetics of Shirley Geok-lin Lim",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fp3n077",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Tamara",
            "middle_name": "S.",
            "last_name": "Wagner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Nanyang Technological University, Singapore",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2019-10-19T14:44:00Z",
    "date_accepted": "2019-10-19T14:44:00Z",
    "date_published": "2019-12-30T23:20:18Z",
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