Article Title：Hegemony, national allegory, exile: The poetry of Shirley Lim
Abstract：
This article explores the poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim alongside her critical writings. Lim has a successful career as an Asian American poet, novelist and academic after having left Malaysia, where non-Malay Anglophone writers suffer multiple exclusions: from a Malay nationalism that discriminates on the basis of race and language, and from British and American academies that traditionally confer second-class status on to non-British or American writers. In Lim's case, a third source of exclusion stems from patriarchal oppression. By reading her poetry as national allegories and fictional autobiography, this article explores how Lim's Asian American feminist poetics interrogate these ideological enclosures.
Keywords: Asian American feminism; exile; hegemony; Malaysian literature; national allegory; Shirley Lim
DOI: 10.1080/09502360500196250
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