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This part is silent : a life between cultures / SJ Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, SJ, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Koreans--United States.
- Koreans.
- Immigrants--Korea (South)--Biography.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--United States--Biography.
- Immigrants--Great Britain--Biography.
- Korean Americans--Southern States--Biography.
- Korean Americans.
- Korean Americans--Great Britain--Biography.
- Koreans--Great Britain--Biography.
- Racism--Southern States.
- Racism.
- Asian diaspora.
- Intergenerational communication.
- Social distance.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary genre)
- Essays.
- Autobiographies.
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- 177 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Life between cultures
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2024]
- Language Note:
- Chiefly in English with some Korean script.
- Summary:
- Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world. With curiosity and sensitivity, she writes letters to the institutions that simultaneously support and fail her, intimate accounts of immigration, and interrogations of rising anti-Black and anti-Asian racism. She considers the silences between generations--especially within the Asian diaspora in the West--as she finds her way back to her own family during the pandemic lockdown. Embracing the possibilities and impossibilities of language, Kim rejoices in the similes of Korean, her mother tongue, and draws inspiration from K-dramas and writers across cultures who sustain her. As borders close in and nations enter lockdown, the journey that Kim traces is fraught--and at once illuminates that the act of remaining present has its own power, allowing boundless hope. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Namu amitabulbosal gwanseeumbosal (forgive me my eyeballs)
- We are moving to America
- Jeong (mother's tongue)
- (Water damage, dates unknown)
- Dear Manchester Chinatown
- Jeong-oappa-ege
- Hannyeon
- Ma-eum (Home without Mom)
- Dear Manchester Chinatown, (Go Eun Jeong).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-177).
- ISBN:
- 1324064765
- 9781324064763
- OCLC:
- 1379265349
- Publisher Number:
- 99996789761
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