Black-Korean Romance: Racially Triangulated Interracial Relationships and Immigrant Narratives in The Sun Is Also a Star

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: Joo Young Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제53집 2호, 117~137쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.09.30

영문 초록

This article navigates Afro-Asian relations and immigration issues through its analysis of the romantic relationship between a Jamaican American immigrant and a second-generation Korean American in Nicola Yoon’s young adult novel The Sun Is Also a Star (2016). My textual analysis of Yoon’s work shows how this novel functions as a counterhegemonic literary project that problematizes systemic racism, anti-immigration policy, prejudice against interracial relationships, and stereotypical images of Asian men and Black women. Because representations of interracial relationships between Black women and Asian men in American culture are still scarce, Yoon’s literary work has social and political implications in need of scholarly attention. Unfortunately, the cinematic adaptation of this novel dismisses its discursive discourse, and the filmic narrative arc reproduces dominant ideologies of race and immigration. My analysis of the novel thus serves to recognize the literary activism of Nicola Yoon, on the one hand, and to critique the hegemonic discourses of the cinematic adaptation on the other.

목차

Introduction

Afro-Asian Romance as a Political Tool

Racially Triangulated Black-Korean Conflict

The Lovebirds’ Immigrant Narratives

Return to the Hegemonic Discourse:The Cinematic Adaptation of The Sun Is Also a Star

Conclusion

키워드

Interracial relationships Black and Korean conflict Racial triangulation Immigration Adaptation