The writer as migrant

Jin, Ha 1956- (Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780226399904 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0226399907 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780226399881 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0226399885 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 96 p.)
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-94) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The spokesman and the tribe -- The language of betrayal -- An individual's homeland.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.