Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography

by Fulbeck, Kip

• ISBN13: 9780295980799
• ISBN10: 0295980796
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

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. By turns 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.

Table of Contents

preface	ix
acknowledgments	xi
introduction	3	(2)
sunflower	5	(36)
One	6	(7)
Two	13	(7)
Three	20	(4)
Four	24	(5)
Five	29	(12)
violet	41	(26)
Six	42	(8)
Seven	50	(11)
Eight	61	(6)
daffodil	67	(30)
Nine	68	(11)
Ten	79	(5)
Eleven	84	(13)
carnation	97	(14)
Twelve	98	(5)
Thirteen	103	(8)
orchid	111	(34)
Fourteen	112	(9)
Fifteen	121	(17)
Sixteen	138	(7)
delphinium	145	(30)
Seventeen	146	(10)
Eighteen	156	(19)
morning glory	175	(28)
Nineteen	176	(9)
Twenty	185	(7)
Twenty-one	192	(6)
Twenty-two	198	(5)
iris	203	(30)
Twenty-three	204	(12)
Twenty-four	216	(17)
impatiens	233	(39)
Twenty-five	234	(13)
Twenty-six	247	(12)
Twenty-seven	259	(13)
sources	272