Tiger Writing - Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

Informationen zum Autor Gish Jen is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of four novels, including Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land . Her most recent novel is World and Town . Klappentext Drawing on a rich array of sources, including her father¿s striking account of his childhood in China, Tiger Writing not only illuminates Gish Jen¿s work but explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self¿each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a rich array of sources, including her father’s striking account of his childhood in China, Tiger Writing not only illuminates Gish Jen’s work but explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self—each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world.

Product details

• Authors: Gish Jen, Jen Gish
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2013
• EAN: 9780674072831
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07283-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization; William E. Massey Sr. Lectures; The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies; William E. Massey Sr. Lectures; The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Asien, Essays, Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Biography: writers, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional