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East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee
- Title
- East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee / Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; afterword by Sunyoung Lee.
- Author
- Kang, Younghill, 1898-1972
- Publication
- [New York] : Penguin Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xxxviii, 389 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout the United States and Canada, becoming by turns a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer, and observing along the way the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century. Part picaresque adventure, part shrewd social commentary, East Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation. It is a masterpiece not only of Asian American literature but also of American literature"--
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-5094
- ISBN
- 9780143134305
- 0143134302
- 9780525506119
- 052550611X
- LCCN
- 2019002100
- OCLC
- 1089257980
- Author
- Kang, Younghill, 1898-1972, author.
- Title
- East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee / Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; afterword by Sunyoung Lee.
- Publisher
- [New York] : Penguin Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Penguin classicsPenguin classics.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Chee, Alexander, writer of foreword.Lee, Sunyoung, writer of afterword.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kang, Younghill, 1903-1972, author. East goes West New York : Penguin Books, 2019 9780525506119 (DLC) 2019010397
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-5094