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Korean American literature treats a wide range of topics including Korean life in America, the intersection of American and Korean culture in the lives of young Korean Americans, as well as life and history on the Korean peninsula.
The first instances of Korean American children's literature can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976, The Council on Interracial Books for Children (CIBC) formed the Asian American Children's Book Project and conducted a review on Asian American themes currently found in children's books at that time. [2]
Younghill Kang (Korean: 강용흘; RR: Kang Yong-heul; June 5, 1898 – December 2, 1972) was a Korean-American writer. [1] He is best known for his 1931 novel The Grass Roof (the first Korean American novel [2]) and its sequel, the 1937 fictionalized memoir East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee.
Pages in category "Korean-American novels" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Lee's first novel, Native Speaker (1995), won numerous awards including the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. [1] Centered on a Korean-American industrial spy, the novel explores themes of alienation and betrayal as experienced by immigrants and first-generation citizens, in their struggle to assimilate in American life. [2]
Ronyoung Kim (March 28, 1926 – February 1987), aka Kim Ronyoung, was the pen name of Gloria Hahn, a Korean American writer. She was born and raised to Korean immigrants [1] in Los Angeles's Koreatown [2] and died not long after finishing Clay Walls (1987), a Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel about a Korean family that leaves Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1920s to live in the United States that ...