Clay Walls (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2025
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Paperback. A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles's KoreatownA Penguin ClassicA landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles's KoreatownA Penguin ClassicKimRonyoung(Gloria Hahn, 1926-1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants' nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty. Kim explores the tensions within a family of immigrants and new Americans and brings to the forefront the themes of Korean immigration, U.S. racism, generational trauma, and the early decades of Los Angeles's Koreatown from a Korean American woman's point of view.Through three sections representing the perspectives of mother, father, and daughter, what resonates the most is the voice of a woman and her self-determination, through national identity, marriage, and motherhood. First published by The Permanent Press, 1987. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Clay Walls (Paperback)
- Author
- Kim Ronyoung
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0143138243
- ISBN 13
- 9780143138242
A landmark modern classic about the Korean-American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’ Koreatown
Clay Walls tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, it offers a portrait of what being Korean in the USA meant in the first half of the twentieth century, exploring themes of immigration, racism and generational trauma, and depicting the early decades of Los Angeles’s Koreatown. Through three sections representing the perspectives of mother, father and daughter, what resonates the most is the voice of a woman and her self-determination, through national identity, marriage and motherhood.
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About the Author
Kim Ronyoung (Author)
Kim Ronyoung was the pen name of Gloria Hahn (1926–1987), a Korean American writer born and raised in Los Angeles’s Koreatown. After her children graduated, Kim earned a BA in Far Eastern art and culture at San Francisco State University. She was a docent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and wrote many poems, short stories and essays. Her first and only novel, Clay Walls, was the first major novel focusing on the experiences of Korean immigrants and Korean Americans in the United States. It was published in 1987, shortly before her death. Kim passed away on February 3 1987, at the age of sixty, after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.
David Cho (Introducer)
David Cho is director of multicultural development at Wheaton College and specializes in late-nineteenth- to twentieth-century American literature, American ethnic literature and Asian Pacific American literature.
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