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Younghill Kang (Korean: 강용흘; RR: Kang Yong-heul; June 5, 1898 – December 2, 1972) was a Korean-American writer. He is best known for his 1931 novel The Grass Roof (the first Korean American novel) and its sequel, the 1937 fictionalized memoir East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee.
Kang Younghill was the first Korean-American writer and a pioneer of Asian American literature in the United States. Most acclaimed for his novels The Grass Roof and East Goes West, he carries the title “the father of Korean American literature.”. [i] Born in Hamkyeong Province in northern Korea in 1898, Kang was educated in the Confucian ...
Younghill Kang (Kang Yong-hŭl, 강용흘, 姜鏞訖, 1898?–1972) was an acclaimed and pioneering Korean American writer. Kang has been credited as the first Korean American novelist and “the Pioneer of Asian American Literature.”. [1] His semi-autobiographical novels The Grass Roof (1931) and East Goes West (1937) were well-received upon ...
Apr 23, 2020 · To a modern reader, the most dated thing about Younghill Kang’s East Goes West, published by Scribner’s in 1937, is its tired title. (Either that or its subtitle, “The Making of an Oriental Yankee.”) Practically everything else about this brash modernist comic novel still feels electric. East Goes West has a ghostly history: at times ...
Sep 7, 2022 · Younghill Kang Is Missing. The first celebrated Korean American author, Younghill Kang 강용흘, 姜龍訖 (~1903–1972), believed only literature told the whole truth, and that it was the most permanent of the arts. “We were in Berlin when Hitler burned the books, but those cannot be destroyed,” said Kang to the New York City Post on ...
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Join Alexander Chee and Ed Park in their conversation on Younghill Kang, the first Korean-American novelist and a pioneer of Asian American literature. As they discuss the life and career of Kang and his novel East Goes West , the two eminent writers reflect on the emergence of Korean American literature in the 20th century and Kang's legacy.
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1933–34: KANG, YOUNGHILL: Appointed for the writing of a novel, abroad; tenure, twelve months from August 22, 1933.
