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This essay examines Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces (1996) as a performative autobiography, a genre that not only tells the story of women in the academy, but also is self-conscious in the way the narratives of gender, genre, immigrant, and intellectual are told. Presenting her life as mentorship, Lim challenges women to break out of the various institutional barriers blocking their way and redefines the notion of academic autobiography.

Public Statements, Private Lives: Academic Memoirs for the Nineties

Previous articleNext article No AccessReview EssayPublic Statements, Private Lives: Academic Memoirs for the NinetiesNancy K. MillerNancy K. Miller Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 22, Number 4Summer, 1997 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/495216 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 7Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1997 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Bidisha Banerjee “Alphabets of Flesh”: Writing the Body and Diasporic Women’s Autobiography in Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines, English Studies 103, no.88 (Aug 2022): 1210–1227.https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2105025Katrina M. Powell Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Embodied Memories: Academic Autobiography, Genre, and Mentorship, (Jun 2021): 159–192.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64598-4_7ROCÍO G. DAVIS Academic Autobiography and Transdisciplinary Crossings in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces, Journal of American Studies 43, no.33 (Jan 2010): 441–457.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875809990867Rocío G. Davis Introduction, Prose Studies 31, no.33 (Dec 2009): 159–165.https://doi.org/10.1080/01440350903437965Katrina M. Powell Memory's Body, Prose Studies 31, no.33 (Dec 2009): 280–290.https://doi.org/10.1080/01440350903438229Rocío G. Davis Academic autobiography as women's history: Jill Ker Conway's True North and Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage, Rethinking History 13, no.11 (Mar 2009): 109–123.https://doi.org/10.1080/13642520802639702Liz Stanley Mimesis, metaphor and representation: holding out an olive branch to the emergent schreiner canon [1], Women's History Review 10, no.11 (Dec 2006): 27–50.https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020100200278