블루진 앞에 선 네안데르탈 인: 강용흘의 『동양선비 서양에 가시다』에 나타난 서구적 근대성 탐색 (A Neanderthal in front of Blue Gene: An Inquiry into Western Modernity in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West)

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초록

Korean American novelist Younghill Kang’s East Goes West is a pioneering inquiry into Western modernity and modernism as seen from the perspective of a Korean exile to North America, Chungpa Han. His exploration incorporates the question of the accomplishments of Western modernity, as well as its limits, and by addressing the Western culture, art, and literature, he sheds light on the ethnic margins of Western modernism. Kang’s hilarious, picaresque representation of the young Oriental scholar-turned-laborer confronting a great deal of tumult within and without Western cultural borderlines discloses the heterogeneous conjugation of Western modernity and Asian American experiences therein. By questioning the accomplishments and limits of Western modernity and its cultural aftermath from the viewpoint of a Korean American diaspora intellectual, Kang struggles to reconfigure the socio-cultural boundaries of modernity in which Asian Americans have been involved to create their distinct cultural expressions.

영어초록

Korean American novelist Younghill Kang’s East Goes West is a pioneering inquiry into Western modernity and modernism as seen from the perspective of a Korean exile to North America, Chungpa Han. His exploration incorporates the question of the accomplishments of Western modernity, as well as its limits, and by addressing the Western culture, art, and literature, he sheds light on the ethnic margins of Western modernism. Kang’s hilarious, picaresque representation of the young Oriental scholar-turned-laborer confronting a great deal of tumult within and without Western cultural borderlines discloses the heterogeneous conjugation of Western modernity and Asian American experiences therein. By questioning the accomplishments and limits of Western modernity and its cultural aftermath from the viewpoint of a Korean American diaspora intellectual, Kang struggles to reconfigure the socio-cultural boundaries of modernity in which Asian Americans have been involved to create their distinct cultural expressions.

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