East Goes West
The Making of an Oriental Yankee
[New York] : Penguin Books, 2021.
Format: Book
Description: xl, 389 pages ; 21 cm.
"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.
Series: Penguin vitae.
Subjects:
Korean Americans -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Korea -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Korean Americans -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Korea -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780143136286
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Kang | Sandhills Indoors | Fiction | In |
First published in the United States of America by Charles Scribner's Sons 1937. Published with afterword and chronology by Sunyoun Lee by Kaya Press 1997. Published with a foreword by Alexander Che in Penguin Books 2019.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.