『원어민』의 한국 음식과 식사의 공간
Korean Food and the Space of Culinary Consumption in Native Speaker
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This article investigates how Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker (1995) confronts the imperialist narrative of assimilation, focusing on the novel’s representation of Korean food and culinary culture. As Henry Park, a Korean American spy, narrates his personal and professional conflicts, the key events of the novel unfold over and around food. While Asian American literary representation of ethnic food has often been subject to the suspicion of capitalizing on exoticism and excess, Native Speaker resists imperialist commodification of Korean food. The homemade meal prepared by Henry’s mother is simple, almost mundane. However, the novel’s treatment of gender dynamics around food invites further scrutiny. In the scenes depicting consumption of, or refused consumption of, Korean food prepared and served by non-family members, the Korean women whose labor brings the food to the table are eroticized. Yet the novel concludes with exploring the possibility of multicultural kitchen through the two cooking scenes where Henry and his estranged Scottish-American wife Lelia share their own ethnic food as they seek reconciliation. By situating Native Speaker in the context of global, gendered migration of food and labor, this article attempts to historically appraise the novel’s intervention in the broader Asian American discourse on ethnic food and its significance in relation to the current attention to K-Culture and food.
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This article investigates how Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker (1995) confronts the imperialist narrative of assimilation, focusing on the novel’s representation of Korean food and culinary culture. As Henry Park, a Korean American spy, narrates his personal and professional conflicts, the key events of the novel unfold over and around food. While Asian American literary representation of ethnic food has often been subject to the suspicion of capitalizing on exoticism and excess, Native Speaker resists imperialist commodification of Korean food. The homemade meal prepared by Henry’s mother is simple, almost mundane. However, the novel’s treatment of gender dynamics around food invites further scrutiny. In the scenes depicting consumption of, or refused consumption of, Korean food prepared and served by non-family members, the Korean women whose labor brings the food to the table are eroticized. Yet the novel concludes with exploring the possibility of multicultural kitchen through the two cooking scenes where Henry and his estranged Scottish-American wife Lelia share their own ethnic food as they seek reconciliation. By situating Native Speaker in the context of global, gendered migration of food and labor, this article attempts to historically appraise the novel’s intervention in the broader Asian American discourse on ethnic food and its significance in relation to the current attention to K-Culture and food.
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