{"product_id":"9780226833835","title":"The Writer as Migrant","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award winner Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43269700714557,"sku":"9780226833835","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780226833835_p0.jpg?v=1781504750","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780226833835","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}