Tiger Writing Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

Name: Tiger Writing Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self
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ISBN: 9780674072831

ISBN-10: 0674072839

ISBN-13: 9780674072831

Edition: 2013

Authors: Gish Jen

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For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders’ Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound difference in self-narration that underlies the gap often perceived between East and West.Drawing on a rich array of sources, from paintings to behavioral studies to her father’s striking account of his childhood in China, this accessible book not only illuminates Jen’s own development and celebrated work but also explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self—each…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.27" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

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.