{"product_id":"the-writer-as-migrant-paperback","title":"The Writer as Migrant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHa Jin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNovelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Consisting of three interconnected essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Writer as Migrant\u003c\/i\u003e sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across cultures and between eras. He employs the cases of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Chinese novelist Lin Yutang to illustrate the obligation a writer feels to the land of their birth, while Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov--who, like Ha Jin, adopted English for their writing--are enlisted to explore a migrant author's conscious choice of a literary language. A final essay draws on V. S. Naipaul and Milan Kundera to consider the ways in which our era of perpetual change forces a migrant writer to reconceptualize the very idea of home. Throughout, Jin brings other celebrated writers into the conversation as well, including W. G. Sebald, C. P. Cavafy, and Salman Rushdie--refracting and refining the very idea of a literature of migration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Simultaneously a reflection on a crucial theme and a fascinating glimpse at the writers who compose Ha Jin's mental library, \u003ci\u003eThe Writer as Migrant\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of passionately engaged criticism, one rooted in departures but feeling like a new arrival.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHa Jin \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of ten novels, four collections of short stories, and seven books of poetry. He is professor of English at Boston University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749097046304,"sku":"9780226833835","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0d71a0057c25f9a0324b6d0b68f93730.webp?v=1779924313","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-writer-as-migrant-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}