Gish Jen
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 514 Exemplare
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Mitwirkender — 188 Exemplare
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Mitwirkender — 181 Exemplare
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (1993) — Mitwirkender — 158 Exemplare
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Mitwirkender — 102 Exemplare
Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Fiction (2004) — Mitwirkender — 89 Exemplare
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Mitwirkender — 64 Exemplare
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- Andere Namen
- Jen, Lillian
任璧蓮 - Geburtstag
- 1955-08-12
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- Long Island, New York, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Ausbildung
- Harvard Colllege (AB|1977)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1999)
Strauss Living Award - Agent
- Maxine Groffsky
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This was an outstanding reading experience for me. I enjoyed seeing the ways the various characters cropped up and related to one another in these connected short stories. I also really appreciated the exploration of different generational experiences, with stories set from the 70s until the 2020s. I thought the exploration of Chinese vs. American POVs was equal parts fascinating and humorous. I’ll be revisiting this again in the future.
Jen tracks the assimilation of a Shanghainese immigrant, Yifeng (Ralph) Chang, to the United States in the 1940s and 1950s (possibly 1960s as well). It is a rather unsympathetic look, as Chang gets taken in by a fellow immigrant and conman, Grover. Although Ralph is the protagonist, Jen's real focus is on women: his sister, Theresa, and wife, Helen, whose lives are perhaps constrained in a different way in the United States than they were in Shanghai. The lives of this family are told in very short chapters in a third-person, detached sort of way. Although the novel is a bit cynical and dark about the American dream, it is overall fairly melancholy, as Ralph reflects of the wreckage of their lives. For some reason Jen's style did not mesh with me, and overall I was just as detached from these characters as the Jen's narrator.… (mehr)
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