%0 Journal Article
%T Readings from Asia: Questioning America Again
%A Yerim Kim
%J Cross-Currents : East Asian History and Culture Review
%D 2013
%I University of Hawaii Press
%X Chang Sei-jin. Sangsangdoen America: 1945 ny¨¯n 8wol ihu Hangukui neis¨¯n seosan¨³n ¨¯tteoke mand¨³leog¨¯tn¨³nga         : 1945  8                            [Imagined America: How national narratives of Korea have been constructed since August 1945]. Seoul: Pur¨³n Yeoksa, 2012.Research on U.S.¨CSouth Korean relations has continued steadily over the decades, especially in the fields of history and literature, resulting in many notable studies. However, the general tendency of this scholarship has been to introduce and analyze the United States as a discrete entity. While this perspective is useful in some regards, it is also necessary to investigate how this entity was felt, perceived, and constructed by those on the receiving end. By shifting the focus from ¡°what America was in South Korea¡± to ¡°how America was imagined in South Korea,¡± Sei-Jin Chang¡¯s Imagined America: How National Narratives of Korea Have Been Constructed since August 1945 provides an insightful approach to this issue of complexity.
%K Americanization
%K South Korea
%U https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-7/readings-korean