Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders' Guide to...
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Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self by Jen, Gish

Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

€68,04

Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

€68,04
Author: Gish Jen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders' Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound difference in self-narration that underlies the gap often perceived between East and West.

Drawing on a rich array of sources, from paintings to behavioral studies to her father's striking account of his childhood in China, this accessible book not only illuminates Jen's own development and celebrated work but also explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self-each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. The novel, Jen writes, is fundamentally a Western form that values originality, authenticity, and the truth of individual experience. By contrast, Eastern narrative emphasizes morality, cultural continuity, the everyday, the recurrent. In its progress from a moving evocation of one writer's life to a convincing delineation of the forces that have shaped our experience for millennia, Tiger Writing radically shifts the way we understand ourselves and our art-making.



Author: Gish Jen
Publisher: Harvard
Published: 03/25/2013
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.20h x 4.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780674072831


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/24/2012
Library Journal 03/01/2013 pg. 74
New York Times Book Review 04/28/2013 pg. 17
Shelf Awareness 04/30/2013
New York Times Book Review 05/05/2013 pg. 26
Choice 08/01/2013

About the Author
Gish Jen is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of four novels, including Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land. Her most recent novel is World and Town.

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