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From: Moving Migration: Narrative Transformations in Asian American Literature[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Hofmann reads Jin’s adoption of the künstlerroman in A Free Life as an assertion of the right and responsibility of diasporic individuals to engage in personal choice.] Ha...
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From: Amerasia Journal[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Cheung examines Jin’s essay collection The Writer as Migrant, focusing on whether expatriate writers can legitimately serve as spokespeople for the citizens of their former...
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From: Tamkang Review[(essay date 2008) In the following interview, conducted in April 2008, Jin discusses the challenges of being a Chinese American author who writes in English. Chinese characters originally in this essay have been...
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From: Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Juncker discusses the role of the immigration narrative in Jin’s works.] The Chinese American writer Xufei Jin, better known as Ha Jin, won the National Book Award in 1999 for...
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From: Tamkang Review[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Tso examines the ways in which Jin’s text expresses a desire for interracial coexistence and argues that such harmony is a part of the American Dream narrative. Chinese...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date 2010) In the following interview, conducted in April 2009, Jin claims to have distanced himself from the disadvantaged members of society, but Varsava notes that his “evolving perceptions of his own ontology...
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From:Tamkang Review (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCritical discussions in the new millennium have augured an interracial turn in both theories and literary scholarship. This paper argues that interracial harmony is the American dream of racial relationships that...