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Author:

Park, Heui-Yung, 1974- author.

Title:

Korean and Korean American life writing in Hawai'i : from the land of morning calm to Hawai'i nei / Heui-Yung Park.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxiv, 171 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Korean Americans--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--Hawaii--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Autobiography--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Korean Americans--Hawaii--History--20th century.
Koreans--Hawaii--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Diasporic selves of the first-generation Korean immigrants to Hawai'i. Early Korean immigrant selves in the ethnic periodicals -- Ethnic and female selves of the Korean women pioneers -- Where have I come from?: ethnicity, gender, and the place. Peter Hyun's Man sei! and In the new world -- Margaret K. Pai's The dreams of two yi-min -- Oral histories of Hawai'i second-generation Korean Americans -- Yobo: Korean American writing in Hawai'i -- Victoria Sung Hye Chai Cntr©đn -- David Hyun -- Daisy Chun Rhodes -- Third-generation diasporic Koreans and homecoming. Glenda Hinchey Chung -- Cathy Song -- Brenda L. Kwon -- Gary Pak -- Nora Keller -- Epilogue: continuing generations and new arrivals.

ISBN:

1498507670
9781498507677

OCLC:

(OCoLC)927618727

LCCN:

2015036063

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)