The Writer as Migrant: A Lecture Series by Ha Jin. October , Ha Jin, National Book Award-Winning Novelist, International Bestseller, and Two-Time Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Acclaimed author Ha Jin intended to return to China after he earned his Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University so he could pursue a teaching career and raise his family. · 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 essays, this book sets Ha Jin’s own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across cultures and Brand: University of Chicago Press. · 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 3/5(1).
Ha Jin has published over ten books of poetry and fiction and won numerous rewards including PEN/Hemingway Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Flannery O'Conner Award. Ha Jin's The Writer as Migrant is an insightful taxonomy of the experience of writing elsewhere. In clear, sparse prose, Ha Jin examines the lives of famous exiled writers and expatriates. Some of these writers, such as V. S. Naipaul, voluntarily left their countries in order to pursue viable literary careers; others, such as Alexsandr. These are questions posed by Ha Jin in The Writer as Migrant.1 On the surface this collection of his three Campbell lectures (delivered at Rice University in ) is a liter- ary critique by an award-winning author on fellow transplanted writers who include C.P. Cavafy, Joseph Conrad, Milan Kundera, Lin Yutang, Vladimir Nabokov, V.S. Naipaul.
The Writer as Migrant: A Lecture Series by Ha Jin. October , Ha Jin, National Book Award-Winning Novelist, International Bestseller, and Two-Time Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Acclaimed author Ha Jin intended to return to China after he earned his Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University so he could pursue a teaching career and raise his family. Ha Jin's journey from an uneducated soldier in the People's Liberation Army in China to a resident of the United States raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a globalizing world. This book looks at these questions and sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles. 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.
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