{"product_id":"the-writer-as-migrant-ha-jin-9780226833835","title":"The Writer as Migrant","description":"\u003cb\u003eNovelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world.\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ha Jin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226833836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226833835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d","brand":"Ha Jin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44790503571711,"sku":"9780226833835","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f66dfbf4-21e8-4cb8-b4e4-0fe5b0cfc6be.jpg?v=1707289132","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-writer-as-migrant-ha-jin-9780226833835","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}