Note on Translation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Note on Translation xv
6. Introduction: Triangulating Fictions 1
7. 1 The Japanese Empire, American Industrialism, and Korean Labor: Younghill Kang’s East Goes West as Colonial Critique 27
8. 2 American Racial Discourse in Zainichi Fiction: Transpacific Cultural Mediation in Kaneshiro Kazuki’s GO 49
9. 3 Korean American Literature Has Always Been Postcolonial: Clay Walls, A Gesture Life, and Colonial Trauma 73
10. 4 International Study and Sojournship: Absence and Presence in Seoul Searching and Yuhi 100
11. 5 Los Angeles and Osaka Are Burning: Diasporic Minority Transpositions in Pachinko and Moeru Sōka 123
12. Coda: Zainichi, Korean, American 152
13. Notes 157
14. Bibliography 189
15. Index 201