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Alexander Chee On The Groundbreaking 1937 Novel That "Changed Something" In Him

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Article
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexanderchee/this-novel-was-radical-in-its-time-and-is-radical-now
Journal
Buzzfeed
Issued Date
May 20, 2019
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
New York
Book
East Goes West
Writer
Gang Yongheul

About the Author

  • Gang Yongheul
  • Birth : 1898 ~ 1972
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Yongheul
  • Family Name : Gang
  • Korean Name : 강용흘
  • ISNI : 0000000096540036
  • Works : 7
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The novel East Goes West was the first to detail in fiction the experiences of a Korean American in America, by the first Korean American novelist, Younghill Kang. First published in 1937, East Goes West would later inspire the Filipino American Carlos Bulosan’s novel America Is in the Heart, published 28 years later — Bulosan quite openly said that Kang’s success emboldened him to write. Bulosan’s novel was also groundbreaking and inspirational, and so there is a seismic line to draw in Asian American fiction that begins with Kang and extends, in a series of autobiographical novels by Asian American writers, into the present. A line I’ll draw all the way to myself.

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