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Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography
by
Kip Fulbeck
Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences world-wide with his mixture of high comedy and personal narrative. In this text, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh heritage, weaving a fictional autobiography from 27 closely linked stories, essays, and confessions. By turns sensitive and
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Hardcover
,
273 pages
Published
April 30th 2001
by University of Washington Press
(first published January 1st 2001)
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Fulbeck provides an unusual perspective on the world-even for a mixed race person. I appreciated a lot of what he had to say because it was so different from anything else I had read. Of course, I always like books that make you question your own assumptions about race or anything else for that matter. However sometimes the book got a little too ethereal and non linear even for my taste. It didn't have much of an ending either.
Paper Bullets was one piece of writing that changed my life. What's different about it is that it's written from the perspective of a biracial Asian-American--a refreshing change. I could relate to Kip Fulbeck's character a lot, and the narrative was completely engaging and well-written. This novel makes you rethink your relationship to your cultural identity. Revolutionary.
May 14, 2008
T.J.
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
multiracial folk
I could relate to the shifting identities of the multiracial experience written in this novel, but overall I was annoyed by the rambling, confused disjointed and entirely self-indulgent style of this book. Kip Fullbeck is a talented, engaging author and speaker; this book isn't his best example.
This book was a cross between "I Love Yous are for White People" and Dave Yoo's "The Choke Artist" with some undertones of David Sedaris (his essays on going to art school/being a performance artist). Very good depiction of suburban SoCal in the 1980s.
gets put in great hapa lit section
not a huge fan.
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