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Acculturation in Ronyoung Kim’s Clay Walls and Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker

Autoři: Kohlová Petra

Rok: 2020

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Acculturation in Ronyoung Kim’s Clay Walls and Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker	This talk discusses the concept of acculturation and its expression in two novels by Korean American authors. Specifically, the historical novel Clay Walls written by Ronyoung Kim and Chang- rae Lee’s social-espionage postmodern thriller called Native Speaker. The concept of acculturation is based on John W. Berry’s definition which also includes the strategies of assimilation, integration, separation, and marginalization. All the analyzed characters are immigrants coming from South Korea to the US territory – arriving at very different time periods, to different shores of the US continent, and migrating for substantially different reasons. Thus, both novels are not only analyzed, but also contrasted, still focusing on the process of acculturation and other issues connected to it (e.g. segregation and discrimination).	Ronyoung Kim; Clay Walls; Chang-rae Lee; Native Speaker; John W. Berry; assimilation; integration; separation; marginalization; acculturation; immigrants