Lost Names
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Lost Names

Richard E. Kim

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Richard E. Kim

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In this autobiography, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation during WWII, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of Japan and dissolution of the Japanese empire. Examining the intersections of Japanese and Korean history that influenced Korea-Japan relations at the time, Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family, an ethnography of Zainichi Koreans in 1930s Japan, and a vivid portrayal of human spirit in a time of suffering and survival.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780520948129
Edition
2
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Asian Literary Criticism
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Literature
86
Lost 
Names
"I
don't
know, 
Mother."
"Did
you
have
a 
bad
dream?
A
nightmare?"
"I
don't
know."
"You.
must
be
tired.
Don't
be
afraid
of
bad
dreams.
They
are
just
bad
dreams, 
that's 
all.
We 
are
here,
you
know.
Go
to
sleep."
"Yes."
She
holds
my
hand,
for 
a
while, 
quietly.
I
hear
the
rustling
of
papers
in 
the
other 
room 
where
I
know
my
father
is
reading
a
newspaper.
I
feel
limp
and
very 
tired 
and, 
closing
my
eyes
slowly,
taking
in 
the
luminous 
silhouette
of 
my
mother 
drawing
the
curtains
by 
the
moonlit 
window,
I
drift
into 
sleep.

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