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Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit

Yi-Fu Tuan

Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with landscape, nature, and environment. This unusually introspective autobiography mixes Yi-Fu Tuan's reflections on a life filled with recognition, accolades, and affection with what he deems moral failings, his lack of courage-including the courage to be open about his homosexuality.

Book Details

  • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Publish Date: Mar 12nd, 2009
  • Pages: 152
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 0.50in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9780299166649
  • Categories: Personal MemoirsLiterary Figures

About the Author

Tuan, Yi-Fu: -

Yi-Fu Tuan (1930-2022) was the J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of twenty-two books, including Morality and Imagination, The Good Life, Romantic Geography, and his autobiography, Who Am I?

Praise for this book

"An honest and highly personal, if unfashionable, perspective on sexuality, race, and identity. . . . It is undoubtedly worth reading, both for the inherently interesting tale it relates and for Tuan's willingness to risk self-exposure."--Benjamin Forest, Cultural Geographies

"[Tuan] unfolds his life, friendships, environment, and emotions in a unique manner that not only makes reading this book quite interesting but also encourages readers to look at human life and society from a different perspective."--Suping Lu, Multicultural Review