Bibliograph

East goes West, the making of an oriental Yankee, Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; afterword by Sunyoung Lee

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East goes West, the making of an oriental Yankee, Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; afterword by Sunyoung Lee

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

East goes West

Oclc number

1089257980

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Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; afterword by Sunyoung Lee

Sub title

the making of an oriental Yankee

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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