Document Type

Podcast

Publication Date

4-6-2010

Publisher

Black Mountain Institute; KNPR

Abstract

Police bundle a 28 year old woman into a van as the crowd shouts and jeers. She's a political prisoner, and they're driving her to her execution. So begins Yiyun Li's novel, The Vagrants. The Chinese author left her native Beijing in 1996. She reflects back on a history of revolution and censorship, and what it's like writing as a foreigner in a foreign land.

Keywords

Authorship; China; Fiction; Literature; Political refugees; Women political prisoners

Disciplines

Asian History | Cultural History | East Asian Languages and Societies | History | Literature in English, North America | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Political History

Language

English

Comments

Host: Dave Becker, KNPR

Audio file size: 18.8 megabytes

This audio segment is used with the gracious permission of "KNPR's State of Nevada" which podcasts many segments of its programs. See KNPR's website for more information.

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