Bruccoli (1931–2008), who envisioned these volumes as guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers, a legacy that will continue as new volumes are developed to fill in gaps among the nearly one hundred series volumes published to date and to embrace a host of new writers only now making their marks on our literature. Gish Jen, “The Chinese Experience: Personal Journeys Interview with Bill Moyers,” Becoming American This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Series Editor’s Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1 Understanding Gish Jen 1 Chapter 2 Typical American: Immigrant American Dreams 11 Chapter 3 Mona in the Promised Land: Switching and Choosing One’s Identity 27 Chapter 4 Who’s Irish? The Short Fiction of Gish Jen 47 Chapter 5 The Love Wife: Polyphonic Voices of the American Family 70 Chapter 6 World and Town: Growing Old in a Global New World Order 85 Chapter 7 Tiger Writing and Other Essays: Gish Jen as Public Intellectual 99 Notes 113 Bibliography 125 Index 129 This page intentionally left blank SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE The Understanding Contemporary American Literature series was founded by the estimable Matthew J. This page intentionally left blank I’ve always been interested, in my books, not only just in capturing the Chinese-American experience, but the whole American experience. I may have been the instructor of record in the classroom, but I learned so much from all of you. | Mary Lee Settle | Sam Shepard | Neil Simon Isaac Bashevis Singer | Jane Smiley | Gary Snyder | William Stafford Robert Stone | Anne Tyler | Gerald Vizenor | Kurt Vonnegut David Foster Wallace | Robert Penn Warren | James Welch | Eudora Welty Edmund White | Colson Whitehead | Tennessee Williams August Wilson | Charles Wright UNDERSTANDING GISH JEN Jennifer Ann Ho The University of South Carolina Press © 2015 University of South Carolina Published by the University of South Carolina Press Columbia, South Carolina 29208 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data can be found at ISBN 978-1-61117-588-2 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-61117-589-9 (ebook) Jacket photograph by Romana Vysatova This book is dedicated to the many students I have had the privilege of teaching. Merwin | Arthur Miller | Stephen Millhauser | Lorrie Moore Toni Morrison’s Fiction | Vladimir Nabokov | Gloria Naylor | Joyce Carol Oates Tim O’Brien | Flannery O’Connor | Cynthia Ozick | Suzan-Lori Parks | Walker Percy Katherine Anne Porter | Richard Powers | Reynolds Price | Annie Proulx Thomas Pynchon | Theodore Roethke | Philip Roth | Richard Russo | May Sarton Hubert Selby, Jr. Le Guin | Jonathan Lethem Denise Levertov | Bernard Malamud | David Mamet | Bobbie Ann Mason Colum McCann | Cormac McCarthy | Jill McCorkle | Carson McCullers W. Doctorow | Rita Dove | Dave Eggers John Gardner | George Garrett | Tim Gautreaux | John Hawkes | Joseph Heller Lillian Hellman | Beth Henley | James Leo Herlihy | David Henry Hwang John Irving | Randall Jarrell | Gish Jen | Charles Johnson | Diane Johnson Adrienne Kennedy | William Kennedy | Jack Kerouac | Jamaica Kincaid Etheridge Knight | Tony Kushner | Ursula K. Boyle Truman Capote | Raymond Carver | Michael Chabon | Fred Chappell Chicano Literature | Contemporary American Drama Contemporary American Horror Fiction Contemporary American Literary Theory Contemporary American Science Fiction, 1926–1970 Contemporary American Science Fiction, 1970–2000 Contemporary Chicana Literature | Pat Conroy | Robert Coover | Don DeLillo Philip K. Bruccoli, Founding Editor Linda Wagner-Martin, Series Editor Volumes on Edward Albee | Sherman Alexie | Nelson Algren | Paul Auster Nicholson Baker | John Barth | Donald Barthelme | The Beats Thomas Berger | The Black Mountain Poets | Robert Bly | T. UNDERSTANDING GISH JEN UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE Matthew J.
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