256 pp. January 2003
ISBN 978-0-8248-2644-4P
Out of Print
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Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America
ed. by Jenny Ryun Foster; Heinz Insu Fenkl; Frank Stewart
Manoa: New Writing from America, the Pacific, and Asia
Published with the Centennial Committee of Korean Immigration to the U.S.
Winner, 2004 Ka Palapala Po`okela Award for Excellence in Literature
"Sumptuously illustrated ... A nice addition to most public and academic library collections on Korean history, culture, literature, and art" --Library Journal, 15 March 2003"Remarkable" --AsianWeek, 24 January 2003 (Read full review) "Beautiful. Century of the Tiger is a stunning accomplishment that interweaves history, politics, art, and poetry to create a vivid tapestry of Korean American culture and sensibility. The writers and artists represented in this anthology have poured the pain and beauty of the Korean American experience onto the page, infusing this collection with grace and insight." --Nora Okja Keller, author of Fox Girl and Comfort Woman "Century of the Tiger seems to have struck a deep, emotional cord within the heart of the Korean American community." --Korean Quarterly, Spring 2003 "While it may have great utility as a coffee table adornment, I expect that it will also find itself becoming a required reading assignment in courses on Korean American history" --Korean Studies 26 (2002)
The year 2003 marks the hundredth anniversary of Korean immigration to the U.S. Century of the Tiger gathers work by some of the best and most eloquent Korean authors in Korea and America, past and present, in order to tell the dramatic story of Korean culture in America over the last century and the diverse experiences of Korean Americans today, particularly in Hawai`i.
Jenny Ryun Foster is a fiction writer and librarian and has studied Korean literature, shamanism, and folklore in the U.S. and Korea. She lives and works in Honolulu. Heinz Insu Fenkl is director of creative writing at the State University of New York, New Paltz, and is the author of Memories of My Ghost Brother. Frank Stewart is the author of four books and editor of six, primarily on Pacific and Asian writers and literature.
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