Shared Selves Keith Appleyard nourished by listening

nourished by listening

The authors have a personal stake as well as an intellectual interest in these issues

A fresh assessment of Chinese immigrant participation in small-town AmericaBoth a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese miners in the American West

and readers will come away from this book knowing they have learned something that they will be keen to try out for themselves

Shared Selves Keith Appleyard nourished by listeningMemoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzalda work in places where personal history