{"product_id":"korean-and-korean-american-life-writing-in-hawaii-9781498507677","title":"Korean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawaii","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKorean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawai'i examines such self-representing genres as lyric poems, oral history, autobiography, and memoirs written by Korean and Korean Americans from the early twentieth century to the present, in order to explore how these people have shaped their individual or collective identities. Their representations, produced in different periods by successive generations, reveal how Koreans in their diaspora to Hawaii came to terms with their ethnic and local selves, and also how the sense of who and what they are changed over the years, both within and beyond the initial generation.   Looking into their individual and collective identities in lyric poems, oral history, autobiography, and memoirs reveals how the earliest arrivals, their children, and their grandchildren have come to terms with their national, ethnic, and local selves, and how their sense of identity changes over the course of time, both within and beyond the initial generation. In the ly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  PART I: Diasporic Selves of the First-generation Korean Immigrants to Hawai‘i Chapter One: Early Korean Immigrant Selves in the Ethnic Periodicals Chapter Two: Ethnic and Female Selves of the Korean Women Pioneers  PART II: Where Have I Come from?: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Place Chapter Three: Peter Hyun’s Man Sei! and In the New World Chapter Four: Margaret K. Pai’s The Dreams of Two Yi-min Chapter Five: Oral Histories of Hawai‘i Second-generation Korean Americans Chapter Six: Yobo: Korean American Writing in Hawai‘i 6.1 Victoria Sung Hye Chai Cintrón 6.2 David Hyun 6.3 Daisy Chun Rhodes  PART III: Third-Generation Diasporic Koreans and Homecoming Chapter Seven: Glenda Hinchey Chung Chapter Eight: Cathy Song Chapter Nine: Brenda L. Kwon Chapter Ten: Gary Pak Chapter Eleven: Nora Keller  Epilogue: Continuing Generations and New Arrivals  Bibliography","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040634470743,"sku":"9781498507677","price":83.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498507677.jpg?v=1750947341","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/korean-and-korean-american-life-writing-in-hawaii-9781498507677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}