Description
Book SynopsisReads early Korean American life writings in order to explore the partial ways in which those made precarious by war seek to rebuild their lives. The phrase ‘minor salvage’ draws on different valences of the word salvage which, while initially associated with naval recovery efforts, can also be used to describe the rescue of waste material.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Unfinishing War
- Chapter 1 Proximate Memory Assemblage: Refugee Shapeshifting and the Many Metamorphoses of My Parents
- Chapter 2 Extending the Gift of American Refuge: Beyond Familial Separation in the Life Writings of Induk Pahk and Taiwon Koh
- Chapter 3 Authorial Revisions: Fantasies of the Archive and the Many Faces of Joseph Anthony
- Chapter 4 Critical Refutopias: Adaptation and Representational Resurrections in Yong-ik Kim’s Fictional Life Writings
- Chapter 5 Retrospective Transformations: Recounting Refugee Flight in the Memoirs of K. Connie Kang and Sunny Che
- Coda: On (Un)ending
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
