{"product_id":"tiger-writing-gish-jen-9780674072831","title":"Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders' Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound difference in self-narration that underlies the gap often perceived between East and West. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a rich array of sources, from paintings to behavioral studies to her father's striking account of his childhood in China, this accessible book not only illuminates Jen's own development and celebrated work but also explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self--each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. The novel, Jen writes, is fundamentally a Western form that values originality, authenticity, and the truth of individual experience. By contrast, Eastern narrative emphasizes morality, cultural continuity, the everyday, the recurrent. In its progress from a moving evocation of one writer's life to a convincing delineation of the forces that have shaped our experience for millennia, \u003ci\u003eTiger Writing\u003c\/i\u003e radically shifts the way we understand ourselves and our art-making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gish Jen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674072839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674072831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.20h x 4.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2013 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/28\/2013 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/30\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/05\/2013 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2013","brand":"Gish Jen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995566080255,"sku":"9780674072831","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e49d51ea-eaaa-4eb8-89a6-140cdc58acff.jpg?v=1683336546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tiger-writing-gish-jen-9780674072831","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}