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湘潭大学 学位论文原创性声明 本人郑重声明：所呈交的论文是本人在导师的指导下独立进行研究所取得的 研究成果。除了文中特别加以标注引用的内容外，本论文不包含任何其他个人或 集体已经发表或撰写的成果作品。对本文的研究做出重要贡献的个人和集体，均 已在文中以明确方式标明。本人完全意识到本声明的法律后果由本人承担。 作者签名： 日期： 年 月 日 学位论文版权使用授权书 本学位论文作者完全了解学校有关保留、使用学位论文的规定，同意学校保 留并向国家有关部门或机构送交论文的复印件和电子版，允许论文被查阅和借 阅。本人授权湘潭大学可以将本学位论文的全部或部分内容编入有关数据库进行 检索，可以采用影印、缩印或扫描等复制手段保存和汇编本学位论文。 涉密论文按学校规定处理。 作者签名： 日期： 年 月 日 导师签名： 日期： 年 月 日 Introduction Introduction PAGE PAGE 10 Introduction Gish Jen (1956- ), a novelist, short story writer and American-born daughter of immigrant Chinese parents, has come to the forefront of the contemporary American literature after the renowned writers like Maxine Kong Kingston and Amy Tan. She has gained great success and increasing recognition among the readers and critics since 1991. As a diligent and intelligent writer, Jen’s works include three novels Typical American (1991), Mona in the Promised Land (1996), The Love Wife (2004), a short story collection Who’s Irish? (1999) and a series of short stories such as “Bellying Up”(1981), “Eating Crazy” (1985), “the Small Concerns of Sparrows” (1982), “What Means Switch” (1993). Jen established herself in the literary arena first as a novelist. She is best known for her first two novels. When Typical American was published, the New York Times named it “the Notable Book of the Year”. Her second novel Mona in the Promised Land was listed by the Los Angeles Times as one of the top ten best books of 1996. Both of her novels were finalists for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. In 1999 Jen received a Lanna Literary Award for fiction. Before composing her first novel, Jen has already won many awards for her short stories. These include the Henfield Foundation Transatlantic Review Award (1983), Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship (1988), National Endowment for the Arts Award (1988), as well as a prize from the Katherine Ann Porter Contest (1987) and the Boston MBNA Urban-arts Project (1988). In addition, she has received fellowships from the Guggenh