• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.141-142
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• 2018

본 발표문은 서두수의 Korean Literary Reader(1965)를 소개하고 영어를 중심으로 쓰인 한국문학 교과서로서의 면모를 파악하는 것을 목적으로 한다. '영어로 쓰인'이 아닌 '영어를 중심으로 쓰인'이라는 수식을 붙인 이유는 한국문학에 대한 개략적인 역사는 영어로 서술되었지만, 한글로 된 원문을 수록한 본문에서는 어렵거나 생소한 단어만 영어로 주석을 달았기 때문이다. 따라서 완전히 영어로만 서술된 한국문학 교과서라고는 할 수 없다. 하지만 Korean Literary Reader(1965)를 통해 초창기 미국-한국문학 교과서의 형태를 살필 수 있다는 점에서 의미가 있다고 하겠다. 또한 저자 서두수의 행적 안에서 미국에서 이 책을 발간한 목적 중 몇 가지를 유추하는 것으로 발표를 마친다.

• 프린팅코리아
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.126-127
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• 2010

현대문하의 아버지이자 현대문학의 개척자, 미국 현대문학의 링컨, 이 수식어의 주인공은 누구일까. 바로 올해 사망 100주기를 맞는 미국의 소설가이자 사회 비평가인 마크 트웨인이다. 1835년 미주리 주 플로리다에서 태어난 트웨인은 1910년 세상을 뜨기까지 미주리 주, 뉴욕 주, 코네티컷 주 등 여러곳을 옮겨 다니며 <톰 소여의 모험> <허클베리 핀의 모험> <왕자와 거지> 등을 썼다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.141-157
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• 2008

This study suggests some ideas for the improvements of the classes of Language(700) and Literature(800) of the 4th Edition of Korean Decimal Classification(KDC). They includes some recommendations for the followings: introducing some new entries of the time table for the Korean Literature and English and American Literatures; relocating some entries for the improvements including language policy and administration; using new terminologies: adding new and revised notes for the appropriate entries; changing some specific classifying methods including the classification of bilingual dictionaries; introducing some options including those for the subdivisions of modern novels and those for American Literature; and discontinuing some entries not used, especially those in other Languages.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.59-77
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• 1997

Multicultural literature serves as a device for mutual understanding of different cultural. racial, and ethnic groups. This sort of literature is like a window through which a reader can see what other value systems are. It also helps minority children discover their own cultural past and develop a sense of belonging. The purpose of this study is to investigate the general characteristics of East Asian American characters in English language children's fiction and to highlight the differences among three groups : Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans.

• The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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• s.94
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• pp.13-13
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• 1991

• Journal of Popular Narrative
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.279-302
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• 2019

This paper introduces Youngju Ryu's Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee's Korea, and examines its significance and limitations. The book examines the relationship between literature and politics during the Park Chung-hee Yushin era, focusing on Yang Sŏng-u, Kim Chi-ha, Yi Mun-gu, Cho Se-hŭi, and Hwang Sok-yong. The books starts by describing the relationship between the U.S. hegemony and the Park Chung-hee regime during the Cold War. The book shows how poets like Yang and Kim fought against the Park Chung-hee regime based on poems, trial records and memoirs, while it describes novelists such as Yi's resistance by how novels envisioned a community against the Park administration based on the keyword "neighborhood." This is significant in that it describes how literature from the Park Chung-hee era was able to stand on the front lines against the regime. However, it is regrettable that because the book adopts a heroic tale to describe their lives and literature, these are illuminated in a somewhat flat way. Also it is noteworthy that the lives and works of novelists after the 2000s were illuminated, but Yang and Kim's life and literature were not described. Furthermore, it is regrettable that women writers were not mentioned and its concept of "politics" is rather shallow. Overall, this book is very significant in that it introduces the relationship between Korean literature and politics in the Korea of the 1970s with rich data and a beautiful style, as well as allowing Korean studies researchers to reflect on the future of Korean studies.

• Sijohaknonchong
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• v.25
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• pp.175-209
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• 2006

This study focuses on Korean-American writer Hong-Eun$(1880{\sim}1951)'s$ American travel gasaes and sis who played an active role under the rule of Japanese imperialism. This study also investigates Hong-Eun's experience and expression on American travel and culture and discusses his changes in stream of consciousness. According to American travel sigaes which were published in the New Koren Times in 1936. 1937, and 1949, his consciousness can be summarized as follows. First travel siga depicts his inner conflict as a refugee who lost one's home country. That is to say. by observing Indians' losing identity and their miserable labor conditions, he developed his own critical eyes on American society. Eventually he missed his country desperately and sought for the ways of his returning there. Second travel sijo reveals his own agony about not be able to return his home country where he could Possibly visit. In other words, after suffering from his agony, it is evident that he started to take positive attitude towards American society and establish his own identity. Based upon Hong-Eun's changes in consciousness as a writer, the researcher hypothesizes that there exists Diaspora-Consciousness in his work. His consciousness is strongly related with his attitude towards his home country whether it Is positive or vice versa. When his home country declared her independence. his attitude towards immigrant society was positively changed, which was quite contradictory from his previous one. In this transition period, not only he accepted American ideology and life, but he re-conceptualized them as a Korean mode. In sum, Hong-Eun's mental traces lie on the core of hybrid and diaspora which Post-Colonial literature values highly of.

• Korean Architects
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• s.539
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• pp.18-19
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• 2014

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.311-333
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of 'The Big Read(TBR)' reading initiatives sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts(NEA) in the U.S.A. TBR was originally launched to improve the seriously low level of literary reading among the American adults reported in several NEA reports, and spread to more than 500 communities. The major characteristics of TBR include the following: First, a massive investment of federal funds as well as various private and corporate donations; Second, the strong recognition of libraries as the core of reading activities in communities; Third, the adoption of the model of 'One Book, One Community' reading promotion campaign; Fourth, the provision of high quality resources for reading activities.

• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.59 no.4
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• pp.619-643
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• 2013

The experience of interment during World War II has been one of the primary motifs of fictional and autobiographical narratives by Japanese Americans. Examining textual evidences in John Okada's No-No Boy and Monica Sone's Nisei Daughters, this paper argues that the internment has been designed, carried out and concluded based primarily on the principles of economics. Borrowing the notion that 'wealth has (racial) color' as Lui and others maintain, this paper analyzes episodes in which the protagonists and other characters testify how their internment has resulted in their loss of capital as well as human rights and dignity, not to mention temporary suspension of their citizenships. In addition, this paper contrasts the image of the US as a land of equity as represented in the literary texts of the $18^{th}$ century authors in the US with that of our two authors. In doing so, this paper argues that the historical incident of internment in the $20^{th}$ century is the scene in which American ideals become irrecoverably sullied and American dreams turn into American nightmares.