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Speaking And Mourning: Working Through Identity And Language In Chang-Rae Lee’S Native Speaker, Matthew L. Miller
Speaking And Mourning: Working Through Identity And Language In Chang-Rae Lee’S Native Speaker, Matthew L. Miller
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
In my essay entitled “Speaking and Mourning: Working Through Identity and Language in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker,” I argue that the novel’s protagonist Henry Park finds himself at a critical juncture in his life at the novel’s beginning. I analyze the protagonist’s relationship to language acquisition and identity, which have been developed by Lee to be associated as traumas. Furthermore, these topics are complicated by the death of his son, Mitt. This loss is a trauma of the heart and of the self for the main character who sees a successful navigation of language and immigration lost by his …
On Such A Full Sea Of Novels: An Interview With Chang-Rae Lee, Noelle Brada-Williams
On Such A Full Sea Of Novels: An Interview With Chang-Rae Lee, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
An interview with author Chang-rae Lee.
Introduction To Volume Seven: Confessing Racial Schizophrenia, Noelle Brada-Williams
Introduction To Volume Seven: Confessing Racial Schizophrenia, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
A short meditation on teaching ethnic American literature in 2016, acknowledgments, and a summary of this volume's contents.