scholarly journals Confronting the Immigrant's Truth in Chang Rae Lee's Native Speaker

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
V Vinu
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Korean American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Foreign Land

Chang Rae Lee’s debut novel Native Speaker talks about a confused second generation immigrant and the continuous trial for understanding his own culture in foreign land. In this paper, the researcher will be discussing about the search of one’s long forgotten native culture by the Korean American, the second generation immigrant in America. Henry, the protagonist finds his identity and the lost culture through the events which happens to him as an immigrant. Being a second generation immigrant, he was lost in the foreign land and slowly he tries to uphold his culture and identity by recognising the importance of both in his life. The confession mode in the spy genre of the novel makes it more amusing for the minority immigrant in America. Although the protagonist is an American born, he too goes through the taunts and never ending questions pertaining to his ethnic origin even from his American wife. To get back his love and to understand his roots, he takes up a search for his self, self identity and cultural identity. This transformation and the hybrid identity will be discussed in the paper.

New Missions with a New Generation: The Experiences of Korean American Churches and Missions

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-182
Author(s):  
Dae Sung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Korean Immigrants ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Immigrant Churches ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
New Generation ◽  
American Churches

Korean immigrants have continued to form Protestant churches in the US and to contribute to overseas missions. As the American-born second generation grows, however, ethnic congregations of Koreans are experiencing generational struggles. These new challenges represent the potential for Korean American churches to broaden their missionary perspective and empower their missionary practices. Through gathering and witnessing with the second generation, immigrant churches can transform their churches into missionary communities that evangelize and cooperate with other Asian Americans. Second-generation Christians can also lead the immigrant churches to reach other ethnic groups in the US beyond their Korean enclaves.

scholarly journals Language, Cultural Identities, and Multiculturalism in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker: A Sociological Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Aminur Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Korean Identity

Deep into the novel, an inarticulate sense of unease in the psyche of Henry Park is explored being extremely disturbed, and an outcast. Trapped being in American-Korean identity, he has got his impression on his wife, Lilia beings ‘emotional alien’, ‘yellow peril: neo-American,’ ‘stranger/follower/traitor/spy’. In addition, she speaks of him being a ‘False speaker of Language’ because Henry looks listening to her attentively; following her executing language word by word like someone resembling a non-native speaker. In fact, the cultural differences between the Korean-American and the Native American bring tension around the ways the English language is used.

scholarly journals Diaspora and Culture: A Study of Indian Immigration and Integumentary Anxiety in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S12) ◽  
pp. 87-91
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
The People ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
Indian Immigration

This research aims at capturing the sense of identity, loneliness and untold anxiety among the immigrants from the writing of one of the prominent authors writing in English from Indian subcontinent. The Namesake, a well-knit novel by the author Jhumpa Lahiri. The novel “The Namesake” depicts it the best kind of reference to classify Diaspora as the word ‘Diaspora’ as well as its prime role in this present era, the first and second generation who are struggling for identity, loneliness and the most prominent one is integumentry anxiety among them. It is that untold anxiety which the people can’t disclose to anyone. It remains in the very heart of them untold and unexpressed. In fact Jhumpa Lahiri the novelist is child of Indian immigrates and she is also migrated from her birthplace England to America. The effect of both made her Diaspora writer and a migrant one. She mirrored the life of the Indian Diaspora, who are struggling for identity and the integumentary anxiety. They construct unhomely home in the foreign land.

scholarly journals MASKULINITAS LAKI-LAKI KOREA AMERIKA SEBAGAI LIYAN DALAM NATIVE SPEAKER KARYA CHANG-RAE LEE

ATAVISME ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Nurul Hanifa Aprilia ◽  
Aquarini Priyatna ◽  
Muhammad Adji
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Method ◽  
White Women ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
Consumption Theory

This article aims to reveal  how the Korean-American male protagonist, describe as ‘Liyan’, is consumed by his white wife in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee’s (1996). This article argues that sexual acts committed against Henry Park by his white wife is manifested as a form of consumption towards ‘Liyan’. The theories use in this research are post-colonialism theory that is argued by Edward Said (2006) and consumption theory that is proposed by Bell Hooks (1992). This article uses descriptive analytical method. The data from the novel are described to obtain an overview of the construction of Korean-American masculinity. Later on the analysis it is found that in Native Speaker the stereotype construction towards Korean American man is not only puts Korean American man as inferior towards white masculinity, but also in the marriage relationship between Korean American man and white women

STEM outcomes of second-generation immigrant students with high-skilled parental backgrounds

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (17) ◽  
pp. 2465-2483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin ◽  
Sabina Lissitsa ◽  
Marina Milner-Bolotin
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Stem Outcomes
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