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...
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| Schriftenreihe: | American lives.
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. From her origins in Hong Kong as an Indonesian of Chinese descent to her U.S. citizenship and multiple countries of residence, she writes her way around the globe. Caring for her mother with Alzheimer's in Hong Kong becomes the rhythmic accompaniment to an enforced, long-term, long-distance relationship with her partner and home in New York. In between Xu reflects on all her selves, which are defined by those myriad monikers of existence. As an author who began life as a novelist and fiction writer, she also considers the nature of genre, which snakes its way through these essays. In her linguistic trip across the comic tragedy that is globalism, she wonders about the mystery of humanity and the future of our world at this complicated and precarious moment in human existence. This Fish Is Fowl is a twenty-first-century blend of the essayist traditions of both West and East. Xu's acerbic, deft prose shows her to be a descendant of both Michel de Montaigne and Lu Xun, with influences from stepparent Jonathan Swift |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781496215079 1496215079 9781496215093 1496215095 |
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| spelling | Xu, Xi, 1954- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgHgyYMwDkW68Dk3c9qwC http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001086810 Essays. Selections This fish is fowl : essays of being / Xu Xi. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier American lives 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. From her origins in Hong Kong as an Indonesian of Chinese descent to her U.S. citizenship and multiple countries of residence, she writes her way around the globe. Caring for her mother with Alzheimer's in Hong Kong becomes the rhythmic accompaniment to an enforced, long-term, long-distance relationship with her partner and home in New York. In between Xu reflects on all her selves, which are defined by those myriad monikers of existence. As an author who began life as a novelist and fiction writer, she also considers the nature of genre, which snakes its way through these essays. In her linguistic trip across the comic tragedy that is globalism, she wonders about the mystery of humanity and the future of our world at this complicated and precarious moment in human existence. This Fish Is Fowl is a twenty-first-century blend of the essayist traditions of both West and East. Xu's acerbic, deft prose shows her to be a descendant of both Michel de Montaigne and Lu Xun, with influences from stepparent Jonathan Swift Includes bibliographical references. 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. Print version record. Xu, Xi, 1954- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001086810 Xu, Xi, 1954- fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgHgyYMwDkW68Dk3c9qwC Authors, Chinese 20th century Biography. Women authors, Chinese 20th century Biography. Glocalization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2013002662 Écrivains chinois 20e siècle Biographies. Décentralisation de l'économie mondiale. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. bisacsh LITERARY COLLECTIONS Essays. bisacsh Authors, Chinese fast Glocalization fast Women authors, Chinese fast 1900-1999 fast Autobiography https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020493 Biography https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019215 autobiographies (literary works) aat Autobiographies fast Biographies fast Autobiographies. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026047 Biographies. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 Autobiographies. rvmgf Biographies. rvmgf has work: Selections Essays (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGYWpKxKkQKCggdVXKWRXb https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork American lives. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001039824 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2001302 Volltext |
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