『동과 서의 만남』에 나타난 이민자들의 로맨스와 혼종화
Immigrants’ Romance and Hybridity in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West
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This paper focuses on how Younghill Kang internalizes whiteness ideology through interracial romance to build himself as an oriental Yankee and recover his masculinity in his autobiographical novel East Goes West. This paper also focuses on Kang’s strategy of racial and cultural hybridity presented in this novel. The theoretical basis of my argument is a mixture of Fanon’s psychoanalysis in his Black Skin, White Masks, Bhabha’s notion of mimicry in The Location of Culture, and notions related to race and gender of some Asian critics such as Patricia Chu, Jinqi Ling, and Lisa Lowe. In East Goes West, white women appear as “ladder of success” of successful assimilation and serve as cultural mediators and instructors and sometimes adversaries who Korean male immigrants have to win to establish identities in which Americanness, ethnicity, and masculinity are integrated. However, three Korean men, Chungpa Han, To Wan Kim, George Jum, who fall in love with white women fail to win their beloveds in marriage. George Jum fails to sustain a white dancer, Jun’ interest. Kim wins the affection of Helen Hancock, a New England lady, but Kim commits suicide when he knows Helen killed herself because her family doesn’t approve their relationship. Han’s love for Trip remains vague, but Kang implies Han will continue his quest for “the spiritual home” as the name of “Trip.” In East Goes West, Kang also attempts to challenge the imagining of a pure, monolithic, and naturalized white dominant U.S. Culture by exploring the cultural and racial hybridity shown by June and the various scenes of Halem in the 1920s. June who works for a Harlem cabaret is a white woman but she wears dark makeup. Kang questions the white face of America’s self-understanding and racial constitution of a unified white American culture through June’s racial masquerade. Kang shows that like Asian and black Americans, the white American also has an ambivalent racial identity through June’s black mimicry and there is no natural and unchanging essence behind one’s gender and race identity constitution.
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This paper focuses on how Younghill Kang internalizes whiteness ideology through interracial romance to build himself as an oriental Yankee and recover his masculinity in his autobiographical novel East Goes West. This paper also focuses on Kang’s strategy of racial and cultural hybridity presented in this novel. The theoretical basis of my argument is a mixture of Fanon’s psychoanalysis in his Black Skin, White Masks, Bhabha’s notion of mimicry in The Location of Culture, and notions related to race and gender of some Asian critics such as Patricia Chu, Jinqi Ling, and Lisa Lowe. In East Goes West, white women appear as “ladder of success” of successful assimilation and serve as cultural mediators and instructors and sometimes adversaries who Korean male immigrants have to win to establish identities in which Americanness, ethnicity, and masculinity are integrated. However, three Korean men, Chungpa Han, To Wan Kim, George Jum, who fall in love with white women fail to win their beloveds in marriage. George Jum fails to sustain a white dancer, Jun’ interest. Kim wins the affection of Helen Hancock, a New England lady, but Kim commits suicide when he knows Helen killed herself because her family doesn’t approve their relationship. Han’s love for Trip remains vague, but Kang implies Han will continue his quest for “the spiritual home” as the name of “Trip.” In East Goes West, Kang also attempts to challenge the imagining of a pure, monolithic, and naturalized white dominant U.S. Culture by exploring the cultural and racial hybridity shown by June and the various scenes of Halem in the 1920s. June who works for a Harlem cabaret is a white woman but she wears dark makeup. Kang questions the white face of America’s self-understanding and racial constitution of a unified white American culture through June’s racial masquerade. Kang shows that like Asian and black Americans, the white American also has an ambivalent racial identity through June’s black mimicry and there is no natural and unchanging essence behind one’s gender and race identity constitution.
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