The writer as migrant:
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Main Author: Jin, Ha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
Series:Rice University Campbell lectures
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-94) and index
The spokesman and the tribe -- The language of betrayal -- An individual's homeland
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 96 pages)
ISBN:0226399907
9780226399904

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