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This Fish Is Fowl: Essays of Being

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Availability:In StockContributor:Xu XISeries:American LivesPublish date:2019-03-01Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496206824ISBN-10:1496206827UPC:9781496206824Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Memoirs, WomenSize:8.20 x 8.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCJ9N8S18K
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496206824ISBN-10:1496206827UPC:9781496206824Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Memoirs, WomenSize:8.20 x 8.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCJ9N8S18K
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.

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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