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Minor salvage : the Korean War and Korean American life writings

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Data Type :	단행본
ISBN :	0472055208
ISBN :	9780472055203
ISBN :	0472075209
ISBN :	9780472075201
Class No. :	DS921.6
Title/Author :	Minor salvage : the Korean War and Korean American life writings / Stephen Hong Sohn
Imprint :	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022
Format :	295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Note :	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-279) and index
Content Note :	Unfinishing War -- Proximate Memory Assemblage : Refugee Shapeshifting and the Many Metamorphoses of My Parents -- Extending the Gift of American Refuge : Beyond Familial Separation in the Life Writings of Induk Pahk and Taiwon Koh -- Authorial Revisions : Fantasies of the Archive and the Many Faces of Joseph Anthony -- Critical Refutopias : Adaptation and Representational Resurrections in Kim Yong-ik's Fictional Life Writings -- Retrospective Transformations : Recounting Refugee Flight in the Memoirs of K. Connie Kang and Sunny Che -- On (Un)ending.
초록 :	The Korean War, often invoked in American culture as "the forgotten war," remains ongoing. Though active fighting only occurred between 1950 and 1953, the signing of an armistice resulted in an infamous stalemate and the construction of the Korean Peninsula's Demilitarized Zone. Minor Salvage reads early Korean American life writings in order to explore the admittedly partial ways in which those made precarious by war seek to rebuild their lives. The titular phrase "minor salvage," draws on different valences of the word salvage which, while initially associated with naval recovery efforts, can also be used to describe the rescue of waste material. Spurred by the stories told and retold to him by his parents Soon Ho and Yunpyo, Sohn enacts minor salvage by reading overlooked early Korean American life writings penned by Induk Pahk, Taiwon Koh, Joseph Anthony, and Kim Yong-ik alongside a later generation of life writings authored by Sunny Che and K. Connie Kang. In the context of the Korean War, Sohn argues, life writings take on a crucial political orientation precisely because of the fragility attached to refugees, civilians, children, women, and divided family members. To depict the possibility of life is to acknowledge simultaneously the threat of death, violence, and brutality, and in this regard, such life writings are part of a longer genealogy in which marginalized communities find representational power through the creative process.
General Subject Name :	Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Personal narratives --
General Subject Name :	War and literature -- United States -- 20th century --
General Subject Name :	Biography as a literary form --
General Subject Name :	Korean Americans -- Biography --
General Subject Name :	Korean American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism --
Subject(Place) :	United States. fast
Personal Author :	Sohn, Stephen Hong, author
Language	English