Writer As Migrant

Name: Writer As Migrant
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ISBN: 9780226399881

ISBN-10: 0226399885

ISBN-13: 9780226399881

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ha Jin

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"As a teenager during China's Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People's Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident of the United States, he won the National Book Award for his novel Waiting, completing a trajectory that has established him as one of the most admired exemplars of world literature." "Ha Jin's journey raises rich and fascinating questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world - questions that take center stage in The Writer as Migrant, his first work of nonfiction. Consisting of three interconnected essays, this book sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles,…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/19/2024
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.78" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 and is now a professor of English at Emory University. He is author of, among other works, two short-story collections: Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for fiction in 1999. He lives in Atlanta.



Preface


The Spokesman and the Tribe


The Language of Betrayal An Individual’s Homeland


Notes


Index