"A Chinese Ishmael": Sui Sin Far, writing, and exile.

From: MELUS | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Leighton, Joy M. | Copyright information 
   Our destination is fixed on the perpetual motion of search. Fixed in its 
   perpetual exile. 
 
      Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

Errant Storytelling

In the beginning of her personal memoir, "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian," Sui Sin Far, the half English, half Chinese, Asian American writer, reconstructs her first experience as a storyteller. Only four years old, Sui Sin Far attempts to report to her mother what the nurse has been telli...

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