Young-Oak Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 5132210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Young-Oak Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Young-Oak |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Young-Oak Lee is professor of English at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul and currently President of English Language and Literatue Association of Korea (ELLAK). |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transcending Ethnicity
This essay concentrates on the protagonist’s diasporic image in Chang- rae Lee’s A Gesture Life. Hata is forced to go back to his wanderer’s life, at the moment when he seems to have achieved the very assimilation he has worked for so carefully all his life, sacrificing everything else. Defying the old and seeking the unknown, he takes on the diasporic image of a spiritual exile. Using the specific ethnic status of an Asian American, the author m…
Language and Identity
Chang-rae Lee was born in Seoul, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old. Lee studied English Literature at Yale University and Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. The manuscript he submitted for his master's degree was later published as Native Speaker (1995), his debut novel. He was Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College, The City University of New York, and is currently Pr…
Transcending Ethnicity
This essay concentrates on the protagonist’s diasporic image in Chang- rae Lee’s A Gesture Life. Hata is forced to go back to his wanderer’s life, at the moment when he seems to have achieved the very assimilation he has worked for so carefully all his life, sacrificing everything else. Defying the old and seeking the unknown, he takes on the diasporic image of a spiritual exile. Using the specific ethnic status of an Asian American, the author m…
Language and Identity
Chang-rae Lee was born in Seoul, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old. Lee studied English Literature at Yale University and Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. The manuscript he submitted for his master's degree was later published as Native Speaker (1995), his debut novel. He was Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College, The City University of New York, and is currently Pr…
Language and Identity
Chang-rae Lee was born in Seoul, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old. Lee studied English Literature at Yale University and Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. The manuscript he submitted for his master's degree was later published as Native Speaker (1995), his debut novel. He was Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College, The City University of New York, and is currently Pr…
Transcending Ethnicity
This essay concentrates on the protagonist’s diasporic image in Chang- rae Lee’s A Gesture Life. Hata is forced to go back to his wanderer’s life, at the moment when he seems to have achieved the very assimilation he has worked for so carefully all his life, sacrificing everything else. Defying the old and seeking the unknown, he takes on the diasporic image of a spiritual exile. Using the specific ethnic status of an Asian American, the author m…
History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 work) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 work) · Creative writing (1 work) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (1 work) · Ethnic group (1 work)