The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee
Observations on Not Fitting In
In The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, a timely meditation on mixed race politics, identity, and interracial desire, poet Paisley Rekdal -- daughter of a Chinese American mother and a Norwegian father -- chronicles a soul-searching journey that takes her throughout Asia.Rekdal teaches English in South Korea where her native colleagues call her a hermaphrodite. A visit to Taipei with her mother, who doesn't know the dialect, leads to the bitter realization that they are only tourists, which makes her further question her identity. Written with remarkable insight and clarity, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee lyrically demonstrates that the shif…
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- ISBN: 978-0-375-70855-8
- EAN: 9780375708558
- Produktnummer: 9620609
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Über den Autor
Paisley Rekdal was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She has received Fulbright and Hopwood awards and has published poems and essays in Poetry Northwest and The Sonora Review, among other periodicals. A book of her poetry, A Crash of Rhinos, will be published this year. Rekdal lives in Laramie, Wyoming, and teaches poetry at the University of Wyoming.
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