Li-Young Lee’s Remembrance as a Means of Inventing Identity: From “Somebodyhood” to “Everybodyhood”
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This thesis studies what role Lee’s remembrance expressed in his second book of poetry, The City in Which I Love You (1990), plays in the establishment of his identity in new situations. In several interviews, Lee explained that defining himself as a representative Asian-American poet was due to the action of “somebodyhood” and considered it a byproduct of the influence of social status or cultural discourse. For the poet himself, his own cultural identity is called “nobodyhood” that does not help him adapt to the specific environment of the United States, causing disadvantage. But it was due to his “willful foolishness” to express his poetic creativity, and how his own personal memories, such as love for family and traditional culture, can reveal “everybodyhood” through the process of writing his poems, which is important to make anyone feel “the deepest joy” beyond race and nationality. Through these efforts, Lee does not yield to the new situational identity of the United States but gives value to his life with his own “everybodyhood.”
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This thesis studies what role Lee’s remembrance expressed in his second book of poetry, The City in Which I Love You (1990), plays in the establishment of his identity in new situations. In several interviews, Lee explained that defining himself as a representative Asian-American poet was due to the action of “somebodyhood” and considered it a byproduct of the influence of social status or cultural discourse. For the poet himself, his own cultural identity is called “nobodyhood” that does not help him adapt to the specific environment of the United States, causing disadvantage. But it was due to his “willful foolishness” to express his poetic creativity, and how his own personal memories, such as love for family and traditional culture, can reveal “everybodyhood” through the process of writing his poems, which is important to make anyone feel “the deepest joy” beyond race and nationality. Through these efforts, Lee does not yield to the new situational identity of the United States but gives value to his life with his own “everybodyhood.”
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