LEADER 04475nam 2200625 450 001 9910797834003321 005 20230126213709.0 010 $a1-61117-589-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000515283 035 $a(EBL)4386866 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001571455 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16219334 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001571455 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14018104 035 $a(PQKB)11627786 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4386866 035 $a(OCoLC)928894943 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47430 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4386866 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11154766 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL852485 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000515283 100 $a20160303h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnderstanding Gish Jen /$fJennifer Ann Ho 210 1$aColumbia, South Carolina :$cThe University of South Carolina Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (150 p.) 225 1 $aUnderstanding contemporary American literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61117-588-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Understanding Gish Jen; Chapter 2 Typical American: Immigrant American Dreams; Chapter 3 Mona in the Promised Land: Switching and Choosing One's Identity; Chapter 4 Who's Irish? The Short Fiction of Gish Jen; Chapter 5 The Love Wife: Polyphonic Voices of the American Family; Chapter 6 World and Town: Growing Old in a Global New World Order; Chapter 7 Tiger Writing and Other Essays: Gish Jen as Public Intellectual; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y 330 $a"Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a "typical American" writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town; a collection of short stories, Who's Irish?; and a collection of lectures, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self. Jen writes with an engaging, sardonic, and imaginative voice illuminating themes common to the American experience: immigration, assimilation, individualism, the freedom to choose one's path in life, and the complicated relationships that we have with our families and our communities. A second-generation Chinese American, Jen is widely recognized as an important American literary voice, at once accessible, philosophical, and thought-provoking. In addition to her novels, she has published widely in periodicals such as the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Yale Review. Ho traces the evolution of Jen's career, her themes, and the development of her narrative voice. In the process she shows why Jen's observations about life in the United States, though revealed through the perspectives of her Asian American and Asian immigrant characters, resonate with a variety of audiences who find themselves reflected in Jen's accounts of love, grief, desire, disappointment, and the general domestic experiences that shape all our lives. Following a brief biographical sketch, Ho examines each of Jen's major works, showing how she traces the transformation of immigrant dreams into mundane life, explores the limits of self-identification, and characterizes problems of cross-national communication alongside the universal problems of aging and generational conflict. Looking beyond Jen's fiction work, a final chapter examines her essays and her concerns and stature as a public intellectual, and detailed primary and secondary bibliographies provide a valuable point of departure for both teaching and future scholarship"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aUnderstanding contemporary American literature. 606 $aAsian Americans in literature 606 $aImmigrants in literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 615 0$aAsian Americans in literature. 615 0$aImmigrants in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a813/.54 686 $aLIT004030$aFAM046000$2bisacsh 700 $aHo$b Jennifer Ann$f1970-$0864016 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797834003321 996 $aUnderstanding Gish Jen$93825118 997 $aUNINA