![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, they share similar career trajectories: both made an immediate splash in American public culture but soon vanished from public life after a decade or so of high visibility (Kang in the 1930s and Kim in the 1960s) with their books going out of print. ![]() Their works, mostly autobiographical fiction, gained a good deal of initial recognition in the United States in part because they offered an insider's view of a Korean culture in tumultuous times to an audience that could only view it from afar. academic institutions, both also achieved a fair amount of success. ![]() Both immigrated as young men to the United States where they pursued university educations and advanced degrees. Both lived as children through Japanese colonization in what today is known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or North Korea (not to be confused with the Republic of Korea or South Korea). 1903–72) and Richard Eun-kook Kim (1932–2009) were the two most prominent early Korean/American writers, if by “early” we mean before the Asian American movement in the late 1960s and the emergence of Asian American literature as an explicit category. Born roughly three decades apart, Younghill Kang (c. ![]()
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