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Younghill Kang is considered as a frontier of Asian-American literature, especially, the founding father of Korean-American literature. Since the 1990s, the ambivalent claiming and disclaiming of America embedded in East Goes West has been newly appreciated, and the work was rediscovered as an essential canonical novel of Asian-American literature. Admitting prevalent critical acclaims for the work and Kang's achievements, this essay, however, argues that Kang's journey to the West did not arrive at the destined goal in spite of his Sisyphean labor. The self-coined phrase of his new identity, “Oriental Yankee,” with the contrast and contradiction the combination has, evokes a sense of an ominous ending to his American odyssey. Drawing on Edward Said's argument in Orientalism, this article explores how Kang's effort to establish himself as “an Eastern scholar in the West” was frustrated in the panoptic network of Orientalism, which revealed itself in the form of specific legal and institutional permission and prohibition, in his case, citizenship and professorship of university. Through an analysis of East Goes West, this article explores how Kang lets his persona, Chung Pa Han, employ skills of role playing and appropriate distance to get into the mainstream of American society. Also, this article shows how sensitively Kang senses all his efforts to know the West and to get accepted will be futile through an analysis of the dream in the ending and its seemingly awkward interpretation attached to it.

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I. 들어가는 말
 II. "오리엔탈"과 "양키"의 문제적 병치
 III. 역할 놀이와 적절한 거리두기의 기술
 IV. 『동양 서양으로 가다』이후의 강용흘
 V. 나가는 말
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저자

• 최하영 [ Hayoung Choi | 건국대학교 ]

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간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813