This Fish Is Fowl -  Xu Xi

This Fish Is Fowl

Essays of Being

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2019
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0682-4 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Offers a transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary, “glocalized,” American life. Xu Xi's quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator.
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. 

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.  

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie American Lives
Zusatzinfo 11 photographs
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4962-0682-7 / 1496206827
ISBN-13 978-1-4962-0682-4 / 9781496206824
Zustand Neuware
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