{"pk":42953,"title":"'cultivated, / Wild, exotic': Nationalism and Internationalism in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Born in multicultural Malacca during British  rule, educated there and later in Kuala Lumpur and Boston, a long-time  resident of the USA and a visiting professor to many countries, Shirley  Geok-lin Lim seems a transnational writer  par excellence. Yet much of her later work involves looking back to  Malacca, “at a loss here, / Loosening my grip on yesterday,” afraid of  losing “[s]hades of father and mother.” She is the author of poems, short  stories, novels and a memoir, as well as literary  and social criticism. The memoir, \nAmong the White Moon Faces\n, is  subtitled, “An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands,” and the plural noun  is notable. Concentrating on her poetry, this paper charts her shifting  sense of identity as Malaccan, Malaysian, American  and as a woman of Chinese heritage whose language is English, through  “[s]peech which is sufficient enterprise,” even though in these late poems  she can feel “unmoored” and sense “the gravity / of the unmade I.”","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":"Shirley Geok-lin Lim"},{"word":"Poetry and Identity"},{"word":"Poetry and Nationalism"},{"word":"Poetry and Internationalism"},{"word":"South East Asian Literature"},{"word":"Malaysian Literature"},{"word":"Transnational literature"}],"section":"Festschrift: The Poetry and Poetics of Shirley Geok-lin Lim","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gz0833f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Dennis","middle_name":"","last_name":"Haskell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Western Australia","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-10-19T07:49:11-07:00","date_accepted":"2019-10-19T07:49:11-07:00","date_published":"2019-12-30T15:16:16-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/42953/galley/32009/download/"}]}