Word: ha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Singing] Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, riding through the glen. Hoo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo. Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, ha da da da da. He runs away to fight again. [Stops] Of course I remember...
...Ha Jin, and why has his slender collection of published work already earned him the PEN/Faulkner prize for fiction and the Flannery O'Connor Award, plus a handful of other literary accolades? The answer hinges partly on the accident of his birth and the raw materials that fed his literary imagination. Now 41 and teaching English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Ha Jin had the good luck to be born outside the U.S. and hence be protected from the homogenizing and potentially trivializing influences that afflict so many U.S.-born aspiring authors. Beginners are advised to "write...
...Ha Jin spent the first 29 years of his life in Communist China, including five years of service in the army. He was a boy of 10 when the Cultural Revolution erupted in 1966, spreading fanaticism and witch hunts across the land. That is the world--and rampaging ideologues are some of the people--portrayed in the 12 stories that make up his second collection, Under the Red Flag (University of Georgia Press; 207 pages...
...moral quandary posed by this story--the difficulty, given the context of the people and mores of Dismount Fort, of defining proper or humane behavior--permeates Under the Red Flag. Ha Jin is not a preachy author. He offers his characters choices that are incompatible and potentially destructive and then dispassionately records what they do next...
...Hope you like not-so-thinly veiled homophobia. The Jackal "penetrates" government security by seducing a gay civil servant. When he finally disposes of the poor man, the director makes the whole thing look like a big joke. Ha, ha, the gay man got shot! If you don't find this funny, you probably won't enjoy The Jackal...