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Keurium : a novel
\"Shay Stone lies in a hospital bed, catatonic -- dead to the world. Her family thinks it's a ploy for attention. Doctors believe it's the result of an undisclosed trauma. At the mercy of memories and visitations, Shay unearths secrets that may have led to her collapse. Will she remain paralyzed in denial? Or can she accept the unfathomable and break free? KEURIUM threads through one adopted Korean American's life of longing and letting go. On a quest for family, sanity, and survival, it challenges saviorism and forced gratitude. Woven through its heartbreaking fabric is a story of love and resilience. \"KEURIUM tells the harrowing journey of adopted Korean American Shay Stone's fight for her emotional well-being and ultimately, her life. Told in thoroughly satisfying chronological vignettes, this is a brave and necessary novel about hard truths, self-care, self-discovery, and one woman's hard-earned liberation.\"--Amazon.
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Re-Visioning Gendered Folktales in Novels by Mia Yun and Nora Okja Keller
When contemporary Korean-American authors Mia Yun and Nora Okja Keller incorporate and retell folktales within their novels, they at once draw on the cultural assumptions conserved and disseminated through these tales and engage critically with their gendered discourses. As a store of cultural meanings that offer models for interpreting experience, folktales function as a form of cultural memory, but because they do so within a patriarchal culture, the type and range of meanings possible are challenged by focusing attention on women's perspectives. This study considers three novels which relate traditional stories to gender issues, and especially mother-daughter relations: Mia Yun's House of the Winds (1998), and two novels by Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman (1997) and Fox Girl (2002). By retelling the tales, but with substantive changes, and emphasizing that a retelling is an interpretation, the novels challenge the inherited cultural and literary tradition and suggest ways in which history and tradition can be reread.
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Techno-Orientalism
What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, fromBlade RunnertoCloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots.Techno-Orientalisminvestigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.
The collection's fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu toFirefly. Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asia's growing cultural influence and economic dominance. Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes.
Techno-Orientalismis the first collection to define and critically analyze a phenomenon that pervades both science fiction and real-world news coverage of Asia. With essays on subjects ranging from wartime rhetoric of race and technology to science fiction by contemporary Asian American writers to the cultural implications of Korean gamers, this volume offers innovative perspectives and broadens conventional discussions in Asian American Cultural studies.
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Song Lee in room 2B
Spring becomes a memorable time for Miss Mackle's second-grade classroom because of the antics of Horrible Harry and the special insights of shy Song Lee.
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Asian Inclusion and the Racial Pedagogy of Allyship in James A. Michener’s Cold War Novels
This essay examines the Cold War cultural politics of Asian inclusion through the Cold War novels of the popular mid-twentieth-century American writer James A. Michener. An analysis of his Korean War novel, The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953), and his historical novel, Hawaii (1959), draws out the transnational dimension of his representation of Asian inclusion and the constitutive role that US militarism plays in this. Michener’s novels show a cultural vision of an American way of life for Asians built from the sites of combat and war ruins. By tracing what it calls a racial pedagogy of allyship in Michener’s cultural construction of East Asian subjectivity, the essay queries how a flexible and dynamic hierarchy of developmentalism guides Asian inclusion in postwar US imperial formation. Contending with the limits of Cold War racial liberalism for Asians entails an active rethinking of ideals such as freedom, justice, and equality against Cold War militarism.
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Binna's dalgona
Binna struggles to find the right English words to share her favorite Korean treat, dalgona, but with help from her sister and classmates, she gains confidence in expressing herself.
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Linda Sue Park: Author–United States
\"The historical fiction I choose to write focuses on ordinary people, most often from marginalized communities. My greatest challenge is finding primary sources written by members of those communities.\"
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Slippery, spicy, tingly : a kimchi mystery
A child's eccentric grandmother comes for a surprise visit and does some odd things involving a giant jar, large amounts of cabbage, and a deep hole in the backyard.
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