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East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee

Kang, Younghill, 1903-1972, author

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\"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.

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Subject: Kang, Younghill, 1903-1972. / Korean Americans Fiction. / Immigrants Fiction. / FICTION / Cultural Heritage. / FICTION / Literary.
• ISBN: 9780143134305

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3521.A444 E27 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE