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"'Conversations with Gish Jen' is the first collection of interviews with the renowned contemporary American author Gish Jen (b. 1955), whose acclaimed fiction and nonfiction have fascinated American readers for more than thirty years. The conversations in this book offer first-hand i...
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University Press of Mississippi,
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| Publisher Address: | Jackson : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Literary conversations series
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| Summary: |
"'Conversations with Gish Jen' is the first collection of interviews with the renowned contemporary American author Gish Jen (b. 1955), whose acclaimed fiction and nonfiction have fascinated American readers for more than thirty years. The conversations in this book offer first-hand information not only about Jen's authorial intentions, but also about her life as a daughter of Chinese immigrants. Spanning more than two decades, beginning in 1991 and ending with a new, unpublished interview from 2017, these interviews provide readers a sense of Jen's development as a novelist and cultural critic, "--Provided by publisher. |
| Item Description: |
First printing 2018. Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 161 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781496819338 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 1496819330 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9781496819321 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 1496819322 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | PS3560 |
| CLC: | K837.125.6 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.6/J512C |
| Contents: |
The intimate outsider: Gish Jen / Writing about the things that are dangerous: a conversation with Gish Jen / Interview with Gish Jen / Gish Jen: interview / Gish Jen: so, aren't you going to ask if I'm Jewish? / Gish Jen: an interview on the American experience / An interview with Gish Jen / Gish Jen talks about how she became a writer / A conversation with Gish Jen / Interview with Gish Jen: tiger writer whose novels reflect the ways in which we view ourselves and our culture -- "Give me my daily wickedness": celebrated novelist Gish Jen talks with chapter 16 about truth-telling and the project of fiction / Gish Jen: the self in the world / |