동양은 서양에 도달했는가?:『동양 서양으로 가다』와 그 이후의 강용흘을 중심으로
Did East Arrive at West?: East Goes West and Younghill Kang Thereafter
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Younghill Kang is considered as a frontier of Asian-American literature, especially, the founding father of Korean-American literature. Since the 1990s, the ambivalent claiming and disclaiming of America embedded in East Goes West has been newly appreciated, and the work was rediscovered as an essential canonical novel of Asian-American literature. Admitting prevalent critical acclaims for the work and Kang's achievements, this essay, however, argues that Kang's journey to the West did not arrive at the destined goal in spite of his Sisyphean labor. The self-coined phrase of his new identity, “Oriental Yankee,” with the contrast and contradiction the combination has, evokes a sense of an ominous ending to his American odyssey. Drawing on Edward Said's argument in Orientalism, this article explores how Kang's effort to establish himself as “an Eastern scholar in the West” was frustrated in the panoptic network of Orientalism, which revealed itself in the form of specific legal and institutional permission and prohibition, in his case, citizenship and professorship of university. Through an analysis of East Goes West, this article explores how Kang lets his persona, Chung Pa Han, employ skills of role playing and appropriate distance to get into the mainstream of American society. Also, this article shows how sensitively Kang senses all his efforts to know the West and to get accepted will be futile through an analysis of the dream in the ending and its seemingly awkward interpretation attached to it.
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Younghill Kang is considered as a frontier of Asian-American literature, especially, the founding father of Korean-American literature. Since the 1990s, the ambivalent claiming and disclaiming of America embedded in East Goes West has been newly appreciated, and the work was rediscovered as an essential canonical novel of Asian-American literature. Admitting prevalent critical acclaims for the work and Kang's achievements, this essay, however, argues that Kang's journey to the West did not arrive at the destined goal in spite of his Sisyphean labor. The self-coined phrase of his new identity, “Oriental Yankee,” with the contrast and contradiction the combination has, evokes a sense of an ominous ending to his American odyssey. Drawing on Edward Said's argument in Orientalism, this article explores how Kang's effort to establish himself as “an Eastern scholar in the West” was frustrated in the panoptic network of Orientalism, which revealed itself in the form of specific legal and institutional permission and prohibition, in his case, citizenship and professorship of university. Through an analysis of East Goes West, this article explores how Kang lets his persona, Chung Pa Han, employ skills of role playing and appropriate distance to get into the mainstream of American society. Also, this article shows how sensitively Kang senses all his efforts to know the West and to get accepted will be futile through an analysis of the dream in the ending and its seemingly awkward interpretation attached to it.
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