Lost in Transnation

This volume examines the engagement with national histories, citizenship, and the larger transnational contexts in the narrative plot lines in selected twentieth-century Korean American novels.

Autorentext

David S. Cho (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Associate Professor of English and Director of the American Ethnic Studies Program at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments The Geopolitics of Narration: An Introduction to the Historical, National, and Narrative Patterns in 20th-Century Korean American Novels Race, Nation, and Migration: "Disidentifications" in Younghill Kang's East Goes West The Cosmopolitics of the 20th-Century Korean American Subject: "Leaping" in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life "A Circle Within a Circle, a Series of Concentric Circles": The Manifold Subjectivities of the Korean/Korean American Woman in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee Conclusion Bibliography Index.