The Gendering of Occupation and Higher Education and its Relation to the Construction of Masculinity in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee
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In this paper, I examine Younghill Kang’s East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee to discuss the multivalent nature of the protagonist’s masculinity via his relation to occupation and formal education by situating the text within the discussion of the U.S. material conditions and the self-made man myth. Specifically, I demonstrate the ways in which the gendered, racialized notion of “going to college” became an integral part of the national myth of the self-made man. In so doing, I also examine the role college education played in forging an ideal masculinity construct the masculinity of a foreign student. However, under the guise of democratic vision, the agenda of creating a new self-made corporate hero that incorporates the values of the traditional self-made man was applicable only to native white men. This narrowly defined ideal masculinity sheds light on the ones who were excluded from the formula. Through Han, I will examine the ways in which his ambition of being a scholar, his pursuit of multiple college degrees, and self-teaching inform his masculinity.
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In this paper, I examine Younghill Kang’s East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee to discuss the multivalent nature of the protagonist’s masculinity via his relation to occupation and formal education by situating the text within the discussion of the U.S. material conditions and the self-made man myth. Specifically, I demonstrate the ways in which the gendered, racialized notion of “going to college” became an integral part of the national myth of the self-made man. In so doing, I also examine the role college education played in forging an ideal masculinity construct the masculinity of a foreign student. However, under the guise of democratic vision, the agenda of creating a new self-made corporate hero that incorporates the values of the traditional self-made man was applicable only to native white men. This narrowly defined ideal masculinity sheds light on the ones who were excluded from the formula. Through Han, I will examine the ways in which his ambition of being a scholar, his pursuit of multiple college degrees, and self-teaching inform his masculinity.
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