(Penguin, 1997/Virago 2000) (Penguin 2002/Marion Boyars 2002) Novels told from the perspective of a female underclass — prostitutes in Seoul or Shamans in the Korean community in Hawaii. Well worth a read. Links: Buy Fox Girl | Comfort Woman at Amazon.co.uk [Read More]
Place: Hawai'i
Selected publications
- Joseph Han: Nuclear Family, Counter-Point 2022
- Roberta Chang, Seonju Lee: When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young, 1903–1940, University of Hawai'i Press 2012
- Mary Yu Danico: The 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawaii, University of Hawai'i Press 2004
- Wayne Patterson: The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973, University of Hawai'i Press 2000
- Nora Okja Keller: Comfort Woman, Penguin 1998
- Easurk Charr, Wayne Patterson: The Golden Mountain: The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant, 1895-1960, University of Illinois Press 1996