Format:
1 online resource (155 pages)
ISBN:
9789888052646
Content:
Pilgrimages is a timely account of the author's childhood in the 1950s and 60s in two colonial outposts. It also provides critical analysis of the autobiographical genre.
Content:
Cover -- Pilgrimages: Memories of Colonial Macau and Hong Kong -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Life Writing and Borderlands -- Porto -- A Pilgrim to Porto -- River Life -- Church Scenes -- Bookshops -- Morning -- Macau -- The Coming of the Portuguese -- Talking to Vasco da Gama -- Fading Colony -- A House in Macau -- Macanese Snapshots -- Pilgrimages -- Hong Kong -- The Dandy and the Gambler -- Highrises and Apartments -- My Colonial Education -- The Nuns versus the Mother -- Deaths in the Family -- Cemeteries -- Football (soccer) and Other Obsessions -- Maids in Hong Kong -- Expats I Knew -- Book Places -- Hotels and Hospitals -- A Week in My Life (Before I Left Hong Kong Forever!) -- Palimpsests -- To Write, To Travel -- Writing and Travelling -- Appendix: An Academic Insertion -- Works Cited.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789622090811
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789622090811
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=677507
