For Kang and Kim, it is specifically the geopolitical changes inaugurated by emergent and resurgent American-century imperialism and hegemony in myriad forms that forge new alliances and partnerships that flower into happy marriages or falter into disconcerting proximities and competing interests. Fiction for both writers involved not only presenting a foreign culture to an American audience but also narrating the various complexities of intercultural exchange. Kims sensibilities were no doubt shaped by the four years he. One of the historiographic virtues of Kang's work is that both Korea and the United States, from the perspective of an exile, become heterotopic spaces, meta-sites of otherness that reveal the underlying values and desires that animate them. Richard Eun Kook Kim was born in Kangs native place, Hamheung, in north- ern Korea in 1932. Kang made numerous attempts to become naturalized as a US citizen, including separate special bills introduced specifically on his behalf in the US House of Representative and Senate in 1939. Public records for Richard Kim range in age from 38 years old. This chapter talks about two most prominent early Korean/American writers, Younghill Kang and Richard Eun-kook Kim. The state with the most residents by this name is California, followed by New York and Illinois.
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