Images of Korea in Early American Literature
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The genesis on Korean American literature can be traced back to the publication of English works by pioneer Korean American writers such as Kang Younghill and New Ilhan, who came to the States to study during the 1920s and 30s. The overtly ethnographical nature of these early works were geared towards providing not only proper cultural introduction for the American readership at large but also a counter-discourse to the prevailing negative, and often erroneous, images of Asians and Asian Americans. On this backdrop, this study seeks to provide a bibliographical overview of images of Korea in early American literature. Prior to the advent of so called "Korean War novels" of the 1950s and 60s, Korea had failed to capture the imagination of mainstream American writers. With the noted exception of Jack London’s Star Rover (1915), most published materials during the first half of the last century has been limited to missionary novels and adaptations of traditional Korean folk tales, written by early Christian missionaries who had served in Korea. By virtue of their limited understanding of Korean culture and motivated by a sense of moral high ground borne of an intractable Christian world view, early missionary writers and popular writers like Jack London firmly clang to the prevailing orientalist biases effectively applied to all Asian and Asian Americans of the time. Nevertheless, these early works on Korea did succeed in providing glimpses into the lives of women and the common people, those traditionally under-represented and marginalized in Korean society, and in early Korean American literary productions.
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The genesis on Korean American literature can be traced back to the publication of English works by pioneer Korean American writers such as Kang Younghill and New Ilhan, who came to the States to study during the 1920s and 30s. The overtly ethnographical nature of these early works were geared towards providing not only proper cultural introduction for the American readership at large but also a counter-discourse to the prevailing negative, and often erroneous, images of Asians and Asian Americans. On this backdrop, this study seeks to provide a bibliographical overview of images of Korea in early American literature. Prior to the advent of so called "Korean War novels" of the 1950s and 60s, Korea had failed to capture the imagination of mainstream American writers. With the noted exception of Jack London’s Star Rover (1915), most published materials during the first half of the last century has been limited to missionary novels and adaptations of traditional Korean folk tales, written by early Christian missionaries who had served in Korea. By virtue of their limited understanding of Korean culture and motivated by a sense of moral high ground borne of an intractable Christian world view, early missionary writers and popular writers like Jack London firmly clang to the prevailing orientalist biases effectively applied to all Asian and Asian Americans of the time. Nevertheless, these early works on Korea did succeed in providing glimpses into the lives of women and the common people, those traditionally under-represented and marginalized in Korean society, and in early Korean American literary productions.
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