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Understanding Gish Jen /

"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,...

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Autor principal: Ho, Jennifer Ann, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- 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. 
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