Yobo : Korean American Writing in Hawai'i
by Keller, Nora; Keller, Nora; Kwon, Brenda; Namkung, Sun; Pak, Gary; Song, CathyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-06-01
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Summary
Cultural Writing. Poetry. Fiction. Asian American Studies. This special issue of Bamboo Ridge (No. 82) is guest edited by Nora Okja Keller (Comfort Woman, Fox Girl), Brenda Kwon, Sun Namkung, Gary Pak (The Watcher of Waipuna, The Ricepaper Airplane), and Cathy Song (Picture Bride, The Land of Bliss). Contributors include HONOLULU Magazine editor-at-large David K. Choo, Ploughshares editor Don Lee (Yellow), Chris McKinney (The Tattoo, The Queen of Tears), and former Hawai'i State Representative Jackie Young. From the earliest plantation experiences to modern life and culture in the 50th state, topics explored by the writers chronicle the Korean-American experience through evocative essays, poetry, and prose.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 15 |
| from DICTEE | p. 20 |
| Babbling Soup | p. 22 |
| In 1903, Pak Hungbo Went to Hawai'i | p. 23 |
| Litany | p. 35 |
| The Glass Wall | p. 37 |
| When You Are Far Away From Something It Is Silent | p. 41 |
| Sine | p. 43 |
| Manna from Heaven | p. 44 |
| Makai First Light | p. 52 |
| Waterworks Series: Flagstones | p. 53 |
| All Things Monstrous Large And Fine | p. 54 |
| from The Tattoo | p. 59 |
| The Day You Are Born | p. 77 |
| A Place of Noise | p. 80 |
| Picture Bride | p. 87 |
| Easter: Wahiawa, 1959 | p. 88 |
| Living Near The Water | p. 91 |
| Obedient Son | p. 94 |
| Family Plot | p. 109 |
| Happiness | p. 111 |
| Halmuni | p. 115 |
| Black Orchids | p. 117 |
| Subak | p. 118 |
| Korea Halmoni | p. 122 |
| 5,000 | p. 127 |
| from DICTEE | p. 128 |
| from Comfort Woman | p. 135 |
| Ripening | p. 141 |
| The Humidity | p. 143 |
| Gift | p. 145 |
| Contrition | p. 146 |
| The Window and the Field | p. 169 |
| The Mythology of Me | p. 171 |
| Exploration | p. 174 |
| Americanization | p. 175 |
| The Korean | p. 194 |
| Migrations | p. 195 |
| Oahu and Riverside | p. 196 |
| The Love Affair | p. 201 |
| Traffic 2 | p. 209 |
| Hae Soon's Song | p. 210 |
| Picture Love | p. 221 |
| The Possible Husband | p. 224 |
| Uncle Tong | p. 238 |
| I Should Have | p. 241 |
| I'm Not Sorry | p. 242 |
| Near My Home in the Valley | p. 243 |
| Taking a Chance | p. 244 |
| Oh, Why? | p. 245 |
| Night Soil | p. 246 |
| The Rally | p. 252 |
| The Death of Bees | p. 254 |
| Playmates in the Magic Garden | p. 255 |
| Growing Up | p. 258 |
| The Lone Metal Folding Chair | p. 260 |
| Early Morning in Washington Square | p. 261 |
| On Seeing a Single White Rose | p. 262 |
| The Open Path | p. 263 |
| Death of the Gods | p. 264 |
| The Line | p. 279 |
| Missing Pieces | p. 281 |
| from Fox Girl | p. 288 |
| Untitled | p. 291 |
| A Baseball Bat | p. 292 |
| Shoot Marbles | p. 295 |
| I Work Sugarcane Fields | p. 298 |
| Lunch Time | p. 302 |
| The Sandwich | p. 303 |
| The Village Girl | p. 306 |
| Akiko Buries Her Son | p. 307 |
| Memorial Day: Alae Cemetery | p. 313 |
| Punishment | p. 315 |
| Down from the Monastery | p. 317 |
| Manoa Run | p. 319 |
| from a Ricepaper Airplane | p. 321 |
| Customer 1 | p. 334 |
| The House on Pele Street | p. 335 |
| Pockets | p. 342 |
| Chanticleer | p. 344 |
| Hot Rock Rising | p. 346 |
| Made in Korea | p. 347 |
| Healing Ourselves | p. 348 |
| Remembering the Pieces | p. 354 |
| Descending Buddha | p. 358 |
| Circles | p. 360 |
| Contributors' Notes | p. 361 |
| Credits | p. 379 |
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