Tiger Writing
Subtitle: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self
By: Gish Jen
Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization -- 2012; William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization -- 2012.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780674072831
Subjects: American Novelists; Narration (Rhetoric); Authorship; Self-actualization (Psychology); Biography; Fiction
Description: In three pieces originally delivered as special lectures, draws on the biography of the author's father as well as the evolution of her own work to contrast Western and Eastern ideas of self-narration and interdependency.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: My father writes his story; title: Art, culture, and self; title: What comes of all that.