Conversations with Gish Jen
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Conversations with Gish Jen

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Conversations with Gish Jen

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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 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 Spanning more than two decades, beginning in 1991 and ending with a new, unpublished interview from 2017, these interviews provide readers a sense of Jen's development as a novelist and cultural critic. Jen's insights into the merits and drawbacks of Eastern and Western cultures, including American individualism and exceptionalism and Asian interdependent mindset and living principles, provide us with keys to understanding the identity struggles of the author herself as well as her fictional characters. The comparative approach Jen adopts in her comments on such topics as education, politics, business, religion, and concepts of creativity and success provokes readers to reflect on their relationships with themselves, with the society in which they live, and with the rest of the world. At the heart of these conversations is Jen's sense of humor, which makes the book a joyful read for both scholars and casual fans of her work.

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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Year
2018
ISBN
9781496819369
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Conversations with Gish Jen
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Chronology
  9. The Intimate Outsider: Gish Jen
  10. Writing about the Things That Are Dangerous: A Conversation with Gish Jen
  11. Interview with Gish Jen
  12. Gish Jen: Interview
  13. Gish Jen: “So, Aren’t You Going to Ask If I’m Jewish?”
  14. Gish Jen: An Interview on the American Experience
  15. An Interview with Gish Jen
  16. Interview with Gish Jen
  17. A Conversation with Gish Jen about The Love Wife
  18. Gish Jen Talks about How She Became a Writer
  19. A Conversation with Gish Jen
  20. Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer Whose Novels Reflect the Ways in Which We View Ourselves and Our Culture
  21. Interview with Gish Jen
  22. An Interview with Gish Jen
  23. “Give Me My Daily Wickedness”: Celebrated Novelist Gish Jen Talks with Chapter 16 about Truth-Telling and the Project of Fiction
  24. An Interview with Gish Jen
  25. Gish Jen: The Self in the World
  26. A Conversation with Gish Jen
  27. Index