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Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction

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This is a splendid and useful anthology, tastefully deployed and edited with historical range, literary verve, and critical care. The generational waves and generic diversity of Korean American writing is captured in a way that leaves the future open to a range of forms and possibilities that can draw upon everything from the ur-realism of Ty Pak to the transcendental deconstructions of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

There has been major growth in the popularity of Korean-American literature lately, and Kori represents the first anthology to provide a comprehensive collection of 20th century works by Koreans from the 1930s to the 1990s. Prominent Korean-American scholars and writers edit and present the 16 entries in this excellent and recommended collection.