#  Race and Land in Early Korean Diasporic Literature 

 



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 **February 29, 2024** 

 04:30PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

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 **Jeehyun Choi**  
Korea Foundation-Korea Institute Postdoctoral Fellow AY2023-2024

 Jeehyun Choi is a scholar of Asian American literature specializing in Korean diasporic literature and its relation to histories of leftist political movements in the U.S. and Korea. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the anti-imperialist politics of early Korean diasporic writers who resided in the U.S. She received her Ph.D. in English in 2023 from the University of California, Berkeley.

 Chaired by **Ju Yon Kim**, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University

 **Abstract:**  
This talk explores Korean-language literature produced by the Korean diaspora in the U.S. during the 1930s. While discussions of early Korean American literature have commonly focused on anglophone novelists like Younghill Kang, Korean-language writers of the diaspora help us understand the diverse and transnational dimensions of anti-imperial and anti-capitalist imagination in Asian American literary history. As an example, the talk shows how novelist Chu Yosŏp (1902-1972) offers a powerful commentary on the relationship between race and land ownership in early twentieth-century America while navigating the possibilities of cross-national, interracial solidarity against capitalist exploitation.

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 *Generously supported by the Sunshik Min Endowment Fund for the Advancement of Korean Literature at the Korea Institute, Harvard University*



 

 



 

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