Book Talk on Tiger Writing with Gish Jen

Gish JenThursday, April 18, 2013, 4PM - 6PM
Tiger Writing by Gish Jen
Where:
UCLA Humanities, Room 193
Co-Sponsored by: UCLA College of Letters and Science, UCLA International Institute, UCLA Department of English, UCLA Center for Asian American Studies, & UCLA Department of Asian American Studies

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Drawing 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, Tiger Writing radically shifts the way we understand ourselves and our art-making.

 

Gish Jen is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit the author's website: www.gishjen.com

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