{"product_id":"understanding-gish-jen-with-a-new-preface-9781643364230","title":"Understanding Gish Jen: With a New Preface","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jennifer Ann Ho\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - Asian American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraces the evolution of Jen's career, her themes, and the development of her narrative voice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a \"typical American\" writer, Gish Jen, who is the author of four novels: \u003ci\u003eTypical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWorld and Town;\u003c\/i\u003e a collection of short stories titled \u003ci\u003eWho's Irish?;\u003c\/i\u003e and a collection of lectures titled \u003ci\u003eTiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self.\u003c\/i\u003e Jen writes with an engaging, sardonic, and imaginative voice illuminating themes common to the American experience: immigration, assimilation, individualism, the freedom to choose one's path in life, and the complicated relationships that we have with our families and our communities. A second-generation Chinese American, Jen is widely recognized as an important American literary voice, at once accessible, philosophical, and thought-provoking. In addition to her novels, she has published widely in periodicals such as the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYale Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHo traces the evolution of Jen's career, her themes, and the development of her narrative voice. In the process, she shows why Jen's observations about life in the United States - though revealed through the perspectives of her Asian American and Asian immigrant characters - resonate with a variety of audiences who find themselves reflected in Jen's accounts of love, grief, desire, disappointment, and the general domestic experiences that shape all our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing a brief biographical sketch, Ho examines each of Jen's major works, showing how she traces the transformation of immigrant dreams into mundane life, explores the limits of self-identification, and characterizes problems of cross-national communication alongside the universal problems of aging and generational conflict. Looking beyond Jen's fiction work, a final chapter examines her essays and her concerns and stature as a public intellectual, and detailed primary and secondary bibliographies provide a valuable point of departure for both teaching and future scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47595728568471,"sku":"9781643364230","price":2298.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781643364230.webp?v=1774990894","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/understanding-gish-jen-with-a-new-preface-9781643364230","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}