International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies

Yazarlar: Aminur Rashid

Konular:-

Anahtar Kelimeler:Native Speaker,Chang-Rae Lee,Language,Diverse Cultures,Americanization,Crisis of Identity,Psychoanalysis

Özet: Deep into the novel, an inarticulate sense of unease in the psyche of Henry Park is explored being extremely disturbed, and an outcast. Trapped being in American-Korean identity, he has got his impression on his wife, Lilia beings ‘emotional alien’, ‘yellow peril: neo-American,’ ‘stranger/follower/traitor/spy’. In addition, she speaks of him being a ‘False speaker of Language’ because Henry looks listening to her attentively; following her executing language word by word like someone resembling a non-native speaker. In fact, the cultural differences between the Korean-American and the Native American bring tension around the ways the English language is used.

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