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Most acclaimed for his novels the grass roof and east goes west he carries the title the father of korean american literature.
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Kang s debut the grass roof 1931 captures the twilight of the korean kingdom in the first two decades of the twentieth century as japan colonizes the peninsula.
Kang younghill was the first korean american writer and a pioneer of asian american literature in the united states.
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Basically it s about korea at the beginning of the 20th c just about to be fully colonized by japan and never to go back to how things used to be.
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Read the grass roof by younghill kang really interesting learned about a part of the world and it s history i knew nothing about.
Kang s first book the grass roof was published by scribner s in 1931.
Charles scribner s sons 1931.
4 5 younghill kang is a divisive figure in the study of asian american literature in no small part due to how his work was read and criticized by his majority audience.
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Younghill kang s east goes west is a heady mix of high and low.
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He is best known for his 1931 novel the grass roof the first korean american novel and its sequel the 1937 fictionalized memoir east goes west.
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He also wrote an unpublished play murder in the royal palace which was performed both in the.
A children s book based on kang s early life entitled the happy grove was published in 1933 and east goes west was released in 1937.