Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Kim, Richard E.

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520268128)

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Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Kim, Richard E.

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood

$23.95
Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Kim, Richard E.

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood

$23.95
Format: Paperback
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In this autobiography, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation during WWII, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of Japan and dissolution of the Japanese empire. Examining the intersections of Japanese and Korean history that influenced Korea-Japan relations at the time, Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family, an ethnography of Zainichi Koreans in 1930s Japan, and a vivid portrayal of human spirit in a time of suffering and survival.

Author: Richard E. Kim
ISBN-10: 0520268121
ISBN-13: 9780520268128
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2011
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.48w x 0.59d
By Richard E. Kim
By Richard E. Kim
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Richard E. Kim (1932 - 2009) was a celebrated novelist, essayist, documentary filmmaker, and professor of literature at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Syracuse University, San Diego State University, and at Seoul National University. He was founder and president of Trans-Lit Agency, a literary agency devoted to establishing international copyright for works being published in Korea. His books include The Martyred (nominated for the National Book Award), The Innocent , and Lost Koreans in China and the Soviet Union: Photo Essays . He was recipient of the Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship.

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