'My Father’s Daughter': Filial Dislocation in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Poetry

'My Father’s Daughter': Filial Dislocation in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Poetry

<p class="xparagraph">Drawing on the father figure and the father–daughter dynamic in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry, this article examines how the motif of filial dislocation underlines ambivalent and complicated emotions and meanings that can be traced back to the poet’s traumatic c...

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Main Author: Grace V. S. Chin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
Subjects:
shirley geok-lin lim
malaysian poetry in english
diaspora
filial piety
chinese culture and gender
emotion in poetry
dislocation
embodied memory
identity performance
Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/25800390

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