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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Is there a non-Western form of tragedy? This volume argues that the Korean concept of han should be considered an Eastern tragic vision which is gaining prominence in the West through the critically acclaimed works of diasporic writers such as Nobel Prize-nominee Richard E. Kim, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Chang-rae Lee. Through close readings of the works of leading Korean American authors, the book explicates the philosophical, historical, and postcolonial roots of 'han' and its distinctive aesthetics in contrast to classical Western tragedy. It then examines how specific authors deploy this
American literature --- Korean American authors. --- Korean American authors --- History and criticism.
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"Mary Paik Lee, born Paik Kuang Sun in 1900, left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea at the close of the Russo-Japanese War. Her father labored in the sugar plantations of Hawaii for a year and a half before taking his family to California, where Mrs. Lee has lived ever since. Though her father knew the comforts enjoyed by the educated traditional elite in Korea, after emigration he and his family shared the poverty stricken existence endured by thousands of Asian immigrants in early twentieth century America. Mrs. Lee's parents earned their living as farm laborers, tenant farmers, cooks, and janitors, and the family always took in laundry. Her father tried mercury mining until his health gave out. In their turn, Mrs. Lee and her husband farmed, sold produce, and managed apartment buildings. The author is engagingly outspoken and is extremely observant of her social and natural surroundings. Recounted incidents take on memorable life, as do the sharply etched settings of California's agricultural and mining country. She tells of singular hardship surmounted with resilience and characteristic grace. During much of her life Asian Americans were not treated as full human beings, yet she kept a powerful vision of what the United States could be"--
Lee, Mary Paik, --- Korean Americans --- Korean American women --- Immigrants --- United States --- Korea --- Emigration and immigration --- History --- Women --- Women, Korean American
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In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. In this book, Oh takes the online female Korean-American ""MissyUSA"" community under consideration to investigate the ways in which one group of immigrants shares information about the rules of American social institutions and works together to navigate their new society.
Koreans --- Korean American women --- Social institutions --- Social networks --- Cultural assimilation --- Social networks. --- United States --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects.
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Theologian Choi Hee An explores how Korean immigrants create a new, postcolonial identity in response to life in the United States. A Postcolonial Self begins with a discussion of a Korean ethnic self ("Woori" or "we") and how it differs from Western norms. Choi then looks at the independent self, the theological debates over this concept, and the impact of racism, sexism, classism, and postcolonialism on the formation of this self. She concludes with a look at how Korean immigrants, especially immigrant women, cope with the transition to US culture, including prejudice and discrimination, and the role the Korean immigrant church plays in this. Choi posits that an emergent postcolonial self can be characterized as "I and We with Others." In Korean immigrant theology and church, an extension of this can be characterized as "radical hospitality," a concept that challenges both immigrants and American society to consider a new mutuality.
Korean Americans --- Korean American churches. --- National characteristics, Korean. --- Asian American theology. --- Race discrimination --- Koreans --- Religious life. --- Social conditions.
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In this unflinching exploration of one of the most politically charged topics of our time, Pyong Gap Min investigates the racial dynamics that exist between Korean merchants, the African American community, and white society in general. Focusing on hostility toward Korean merchants in New York and Los Angeles, Min explains how the "middleman" economic role Koreans often occupy-between low-income, minority customers on the one hand and large corporate suppliers on the other-leads to conflicts with other groups. Further, Min shows how ethnic conflicts strengthen ties within Korean communities as Koreans organize to protect themselves and their businesses.Min scrutinizes the targeting of Korean businesses during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the 1990 African American boycotts of Korean stores in Brooklyn. He explores Korean merchants' relationships with each other as well as with Latin American employees, Jewish suppliers and landlords, and government agencies. In each case, his nuanced analysis reveals how Korean communities respond to general scapegoating through collective action, political mobilization, and other strategies.Fluent in Korean, Min draws from previously unutilized sources, including Korean American newspapers and in-depth interviews with immigrants. His findings belie the media's sensationalistic coverage of African American-Korean conflicts. Instead, Caught in the Middle yields a sophisticated and clear-sighted understanding of the lives and challenges of immigrant merchants in America.
Korean Americans --- Korean American business enterprises --- Business enterprises, Korean American --- Korean American-owned business enterprises --- Business enterprises --- Ethnology --- Koreans --- New York (N.Y.) --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Race relations. --- E-books --- Minority Business Enterprises --- Social Science --- Business & Economics --- California --- Los Angeles. --- New York (State) --- New York.
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Korean American business enterprises --- Family-owned business enterprises --- Korean American businesspeople --- Women-owned business enterprises --- Korean American women --- Women foreign workers --- Sex discrimination against women --- Small business --- Social conditions --- Businesses, Small --- Medium-sized business --- Micro-businesses --- Microbusinesses --- Microenterprises --- Small and medium-sized business --- Small and medium-sized enterprises --- Small businesses --- SMEs (Small business) --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Foreign women workers --- Women alien labor --- Migrant women labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant women workers (Foreign workers) --- Women migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Women migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Women, Korean American --- Businesspeople, Korean American --- Business enterprises, Family-owned --- Family business --- Family businesses --- Family enterprises --- Family firms --- Business enterprises, Korean American --- Korean American-owned business enterprises --- Business --- Business enterprises --- Industries --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Foreign workers --- Women employees --- Women --- Businesswomen --- Businesspeople --- Size
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There is a tendency to think of Korean American literature—and Asian American literature writ large—as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature involving only Japan and Korea. This book posits that both fields have to account for three spaces: Korean American literature has to grapple with the legacy of Japanese imperialism in the United States, and Zainichi literature must account for American interventions in Japan. Comparing Korean American authors such as Younghill Kang, Chang-rae Lee, Ronyoung Kim, and Min Jin Lee with Zainichi authors such as Kaneshiro Kazuki, Yi Yang-ji, and Kim Masumi, Minor Transpacific uncovers their hidden dialogue and imperial concordances, revealing the trajectory and impact of both bodies of work. Minor Transpacific bridges the fields of Asian studies and Asian American studies to unveil new connections between Zainichi and Korean American literatures. Working in Japanese and English, David S. Roh builds a theoretical framework for articulating those moments of contact between minority literatures in a third national space and proposes a new way of conceptualizing Asian American literature.
American fiction --- Japanese fiction --- Imperialism in literature. --- Korean American authors --- History and criticism. --- Korean authors --- United States --- Japan --- Korea --- In literature.
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"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself and the cultural roots of her mother's condition"--
Korean American women --- Children of the mentally ill --- Food habits --- Cooking, Korean. --- Cho, Grace M. --- Family. --- Korea (South) --- Social life and customs.
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"Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country's indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular, it investigates how Korea's shamanism has assimilated symbolic properties of American power into its realm of ritual efficacy in the form of the spirit of General Douglas MacArthur. The book considers this process in dialog with the work of Yim Suk-jay, a prominent Korean anthropologist who saw that a radically cosmopolitan and democratic world vision is embedded in Korea's enduring shamanism tradition"--
Religion and politics --- Shamanism --- United States. --- Korea. --- United States --- Korea --- Influence. --- Religion --- American Power. --- Cold War. --- Colonialism. --- Evangelicalism. --- Korean-American Relations. --- Religion. --- Shamanism.
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