{"product_id":"the-writer-as-migrant","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 \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.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67621534761203,"sku":"9780226833835","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/7432\/5312\/files\/imageloader_b37e7144-6699-40ed-b98f-4a6215d3a87f.jpg?v=1790945485","url":"https:\/\/letterpressplay.com\/products\/the-writer-as-migrant","provider":"Letterpress PLAY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}