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Exploring selfhood through Western and Eastern lenses.

"Tiger Writing" delves into the complex fabric of identity through Gish Jen's personal experiences, juxtaposed against her father's biography. It's a thoughtful examination for anyone interested in the interplay between culture and the development of the self. It's particularly resonant for those who straddle multiple cultures or are fascinated by the differences in Western and Eastern perspectives on narrative and interdependence.

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Tiger Writing - Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

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ISBN: 9780674072831
Authors: Gish Jen
Date of Publication: 2013-03-25
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction, Philosophy, Art
Related Topics: Essays, Art and Photography, Crafts
Goodreads rating: 3.75
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For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound difference in self-narration that underlies the gap often perceived between East and West. Drawing on a rich array of sources, from paintings to behavioral studies to her father's striking account of his childhood in China, this accessible book not only illuminates Jen's own development and celebrated work but also explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self, each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. The novel, Jen writes, is fundamentally a Western form that values originality, authenticity, and the truth of individual experience. By contrast, Eastern narrative emphasizes morality, cultural continuity, the everyday, the recurrent. In its progress from a moving evocation of one writer's life to a convincing delineation of the forces that have shaped our experience for millennia, "Tiger Writing" radically shifts the way we understand ourselves and our art-making.
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Exploring selfhood through Western and Eastern lenses.

"Tiger Writing" delves into the complex fabric of identity through Gish Jen's personal experiences, juxtaposed against her father's biography. It's a thoughtful examination for anyone interested in the interplay between culture and the development of the self. It's particularly resonant for those who straddle multiple cultures or are fascinated by the differences in Western and Eastern perspectives on narrative and interdependence.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.