Xu Xi

This Fish Is Fowl

Essays of Being

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Xu Xi is faculty co-director of the international MFA program in creative writing and literary translation at the Vermont College of Fine Arts¿and co-founder of Authors at Large. She is the author of numerous books, including the novels That Man in Our Lives and The Unwalled City¿and¿the memoir Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City. ¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 226mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781496206824
• ISBN-10: 1496206827
• Artikelnr.: 54542348

Autorenporträt

Xu Xi is faculty co-director of the international MFA program in creative writing and literary translation at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and co-founder of Authors at Large. She is the author of numerous books, including the novels That Man in Our Lives and The Unwalled City and the memoir Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
On Being
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
Mum and Me
Typhoon Mum
Maternity Leave
My Mother’s Story: The Fiction and Fact
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
Wo/man Roars
Feminism and Faith
On Being Fowl: Notes on Some Explorations in Home Economics
Concubine Love
Origins
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
This Door Is Close
By Any Other Name