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This paper undertakes a close reading of Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel to explore the novelistic experiments the writer endeavors in reconstructing the history of the Yellow Power Movement. I Hotel is an experimental, multi-genre narrative based on the struggle of Asian American activists in the late 1960s and late 1970s to prevent the demolition of a rundown hotel (International Hotel) on the edge of San Francisco’s Financial District. Among the numerous manifestations of Yamashita’s experimentation with the form and style, this paper analyzes the ‘house of fiction’ metaphor, which David Plumbo-Liu evokes in his essay “Embedded Lives: The House of Fiction, the House of History.” Another conspicious feature is the hybridity and the intertextuality the novel performs on and thrives in. The intertextuality both with exterior texts and within the various inner elements works as a way of recontexualizing the historic movement, providing links between the genres and narratives in the text. Yamashita achieves a rare feat of reconstructing a comprehensive history by combining playful novelistic techniques with compelling individual stories.

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I. 들어가는 말
 II. ‘허구의 집’(House of Fiction)
 III. ‘역사의 집’(HouseofHistory): 개인서사와 역사서술의 합류
 IV. 상호텍스트성(Intertextuality)
 V. 나가는 말
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• 노은미 [ Eun -Mi Noh | 한림대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810