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BL
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977690
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b732060
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| Main Entry
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Jin, Ha,1956-
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| Title & Author
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The writer as migrant /\ Ha Jin.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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The Rice University Campbell lectures
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (x, 96 pages)
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| ISBN
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0226399885
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: 0226399907
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: 1282069977
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: 9780226399881
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: 9780226399904
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: 9781282069978
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0226399885
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9780226399881
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-94) and index.
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| Contents
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The spokesman and the tribe -- The language of betrayal -- An individual's homeland.
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| Abstract
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As a teenager during China's Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People's Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident of the United States, he won the National Book Award for his novel Waiting, completing a trajectory that has established him as one of the most admired exemplars of world literature. Ha Jin's journey raises rich and fascinating questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world--questions that take center stage in The Writer as Migrant, his first work of nonfiction. Consisting of three interconnected.
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Authors, Exiled.
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Authorship-- Philosophy.
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Exiles in literature.
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Exiles' writings-- History and criticism.
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Language and culture-- Philosophy.
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Literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Authors, Exiled.
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Authorship-- Philosophy.
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Exil i litteraturen.
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Exiles in literature.
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Exiles' writings.
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Exilförfattare-- historia.
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Exilliteratur
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Exilschriftsteller
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Författarskap-- teori, filosofi.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literature-- Theory, etc.
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Migration i litteraturen.
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| Dewey Classification
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818/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3560.I6Z46 2008eb
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| NLM classification
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HU 9800rvk
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