University of Washington Press
Press Release – 04 April 2001
April 4, 2001
University of Washington Press
Book News
Paper Bullets
A Fictional Autobiography
By Kip Fulbeck
The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
Publication date: May, 2001
Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of high comedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets, his first novel, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh heritage, weaving a fictional autobiography from 27 closely linked stories, essays, and confessions. Sensitive and forceful, passionate and callous, Fulbeck confronts the politics of race, sex and Asian American masculinity head-on, without apology, constantly questioning where Hapas fit in a country that ignores multiracial identity.
“Paper Bullets’ stylistic flair and humor give the familiar paradoxes of racial and sexual politics a freshness and urgency that is irresistible. If there’s such a thing as Hapa rap this could be it.”–Arati Rao, Columbia University
“Ever transforming Asian American cultural styles in which East and West intertwine Asian American babyboomers, generation X-ers, and now generations XYZ-ers are delightfully and disturbingly illuminated in Paper Bullets.”–Teresa K. Williams-Leon, California State University, Northridge
“Make no mistake, this is a rough book emotionally, a sexual coming-of-age story without any of the easy conventions of the genre. It’s fast-paced, funny, and sometimes harrowing. Its form is sometimes experimental, but never unclear. There is honesty here, and wisdom, about how some men are misshapen and how we may grow.”–Paul R. Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
This novel can be ordered in paperback or hardcover on www.amazon.com
282 pp.
Cloth, ISBN 0-295-98078-8, $35.00
Paper, ISBN 0-295-98079-6, $18.95
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