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Review: Swimming In Hong Kong, Stephanie Chan
Review: Swimming In Hong Kong, Stephanie Chan
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
A review of Swimming in Hong Kong (2016), a short story collection by Stephanie Han.
The Author As The Novel Self: Shirley Lim’S Sister Swing, Denise B. Dillon
The Author As The Novel Self: Shirley Lim’S Sister Swing, Denise B. Dillon
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
While authorial omniscience is denied the biographer, I argue that Lim as novelist takes this advantage in Sister Swing as a tool through which to explore the development of self-identity through characterizations of three sisters that in combination form the tripartite self as proposed by Freud. Autobiographical memories of familial, social and cultural life experiences are the source from which Lim draws and fleshes out, in her novel, portrayals of family members seeking freedom through different ways and means. As a self-analyst probing deep within the psyche, Lim employs linguistic stylizations to express contrastive and yet complementary points of view …