Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee Observations on Not Fitting In

Name: Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee Observations on Not Fitting In
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ISBN: 9780375708558

ISBN-10: 0375708553

ISBN-13: 9780375708558

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Authors: Paisley Rekdal

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When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface. Here in this hypnotic blend of personal essay and travelogue, Rekdal journeys throughout Asia to explore her place in a world where one’s “appearance is the deciding factor of one’s ethnicity.” In her soul-searching voyage, she teaches English in South Korea where her native colleagues call her a “hermaphrodite,” and is dismissed by her host family in Japan as an American despite her assertion of being half-Chinese. A visit to Taipei with her mother, who doesn’t know the…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.96" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Paisley Rekdal teaches at the University of Wyoming & is the author of "The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee."



The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee


We Do Not Live Here, We Are Only Visitors


Americans Abroad


Sexy Mild


Other Women


Sharks


St. Agatha


Hunters and Gatherers


A Tempest


Bad Vacation with Tasaday Tribe, or How My Grandfather Acquired the Laundromat


Biology


Traveling to Opal


Acknowledgments