Gish Jen Criticism
- Introduction
- Principal Works
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Essays
- MELUS Interview: Gish Jen
- Writing About the Things That Are Dangerous: A Conversation with Gish Jen
- Where the East Is Read
- Gish Jen Talks with Scarlet Cheng
- The Typical American Comes to Town
- Affirmations: Speaking the Self into Being
- Some of Her Best Friends
- A WASP-Free America
- Asian-American Pancake
- A Wacky Mosaic of Teenage Self-Discovery
- Authentically Inauthentic
- The Chosen Person
- Review of Mona in the Promised Land
- Schemers and Schemas
- In the Melting Pot
- The Redefinition of the ‘Typical Chinese’ in Gish Jen's Typical American
- Myths of History
- Gish Jen: ‘The Book That Hormones Wrote.’
- Windows of Opportunity
- Margarinized
- Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American
- Blair-Speak
- Laughter with a Twist
- Immigrant Dreams and Civic Promises: (Con-)Testing Identity in Early Jewish American Literature and Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land
- About Gish Jen
- The (Re)Birth of Mona Changowitz: Rituals and Ceremonies of Cultural Conversion and Self-Making in Mona in the Promised Land
- The Convent as Colonist: Catholicism in the Works of Contemporary Women Writers of the Americas
- Who's Chinese?
- Mona on the Phone: The Performative Body and Racial Identity in Mona in the Promised Land
- Further Reading