This volume examines the engagement with national histories, citizenship, and the larger transnational contexts in the narrative plot lines in selected twentieth-century Korean American novels. Critics have often expected, or even demanded, that the Korean American novel present the ideal and coherent American citizen-subject in a linear bildungsroman plotline.
Acknowledgments - The Geopolitics of Narration: An Introduction to the Historical, National, and Narrative Patterns in 20th-Century Korean American Novels - Race, Nation, and Migration: "Disidentifications" in Younghill Kang's East Goes West - The Cosmopolitics of the 20th-Century Korean American Subject: "Leaping" in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life - "A Circle Within a Circle, a Series of Concentric Circles": The Manifold Subjectivities of the Korean/Korean American Woman in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.