@article{ART001514213},
author={JinWol Yoo},
title={A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2010},
volume={21},
pages={139-164},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2010.21..139}
TY - JOUR
AU - JinWol Yoo
TI - A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2010
VL - 21
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 139
EP - 164
SN - 1598-0685
AB - Sung Yung Shin was adopted as a Korean infant to an American family. She is now one of the most important writers in Asian American literary field. This paper analyzes the characteristics of her literature, focusing on Skirt full of Black (poetry)and Cooper's Lesson(children's book).
Sun Yung Shin uses collage in Skirt full of Black as an effective rhetorical device because it can express her experience as an adopted other in the multicultural American society. She rewrites the fairy tale of Swan Prince in the viewpoint of silence. For a yellow Asian adopted woman, speaking is suppressed. In the end, the attempt to escape from silence is the writer's resisting activity, and the rewriting of the tale is her questioning in place of the princess.
I analyses Cooper's Lesson in the viewpoint of transcultural assimilation. Cooper's lesson is accomplished not by his white father but by a Korean settler, Mr. Lee. Cooper's family is a hybrid composed of white American father, Korean mother, and their half son. So this family has many complicated difficulties, though it's small. Mr. Lee who accepted a new language to establish a new identity teaches Cooper the importance of cultural assimilation, which is not a one-sided integration to dominant culture but an intercultural communion while sustaining each culture's singularity. Cooper learns that he should live in an harmonious and balanced life in a multi-cultural society while keeping his own subjective point of view.
KW - Sun Yung Shin;Asian American literature;collage;assimilation;adoptee
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2010.21..139
ER -
JinWol Yoo. (2010). A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature. Cross-Cultural Studies, 21, 139-164.
JinWol Yoo. 2010, "A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.21, pp.139-164. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2010.21..139
JinWol Yoo "A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature" Cross-Cultural Studies 21 pp.139-164 (2010) : 139.
JinWol Yoo. A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature. 2010; 21 139-164. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2010.21..139
JinWol Yoo. "A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature" Cross-Cultural Studies 21(2010) : 139-164.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2010.21..139
JinWol Yoo. A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature. Cross-Cultural Studies, 21, 139-164. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2010.21..139
JinWol Yoo. A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2010; 21 139-164. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2010.21..139
JinWol Yoo. A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature. 2010; 21 139-164. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2010.21..139
JinWol Yoo. "A Study on Sun Yung Shin's Literature" Cross-Cultural Studies 21(2010) : 139-164.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2010.21..139