East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee / Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; afterword by Sunyoung Lee.
2019
PS3521.A444 E27 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee / Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; afterword by Sunyoung Lee.
ISBN
9780143134305 (paperback)
0143134302 (paperback)
0143134302 (paperback)
Published
New York : Penguin Books, 2019.
Language
English
Description
xxxviii, 389 pages ; 20 cm
Call Number
PS3521.A444 E27 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.52
Summary
"Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout the United States and Canada, becoming by turns a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer, and observing along the way the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century. Part picaresque adventure, part shrewd social commentary, East Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation. It is a masterpiece not only of Asian American literature but also of American literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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