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IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE

Sayı: Advanced Online Publication Erken Görünüm Tarihi: 18 Mayıs 2026
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IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE

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This article examines how Gary Pak’s A Ricepaper Airplane (1998) reimagines Korean American identity within a transpacific framework that challenges conventional narratives of migration and belonging. Rather than reproducing familiar assimilationist tropes, Pak’s novel insists on alternative ways of situating both Korean American subjectivity and American identity at large. The novel demands that American history be redrawn to include transpacific as well as transatlantic frameworks; it replaces the mythology of voluntary migration and self-reinvention with the paradigm of exile, in which migration is compelled by historical violence and oriented toward the preservation of cultural memory; and it destabilizes the entrenched assumption that whiteness or legal citizenship constitutes the baseline of American belonging. Through its engagement with historical detail, its construction of exile as an alternative to the American Dream narrative, and its interrogation of racialized forms of inclusion and exclusion, A Ricepaper Airplane not only broadens the scope of Korean American literature but also redefines the very terms of American identity.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

  1. Chang, E. T., & Carol K. P. (2019). Korean americans: A concise history. Routledge.
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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

18 Mayıs 2026

Yayımlanma Tarihi

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Gönderilme Tarihi

1 Ekim 2025

Kabul Tarihi

23 Aralık 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Sayı: Advanced Online Publication

Kaynak Göster

APA
Yaşayan, V. (2026). IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1794611
AMA
1.Yaşayan V. IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE. PAUSBED. 2026;(Advanced Online Publication). doi:10.30794/pausbed.1794611
Chicago
Yaşayan, Vahit. 2026. “IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, sy Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1794611.
EndNote
Yaşayan V (01 Mayıs 2026) IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi Advanced Online Publication
IEEE
[1]V. Yaşayan, “IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE”, PAUSBED, sy Advanced Online Publication, May. 2026, doi: 10.30794/pausbed.1794611.
ISNAD
Yaşayan, Vahit. “IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. Advanced Online Publication (01 Mayıs 2026). https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1794611.
JAMA
1.Yaşayan V. IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE. PAUSBED. 2026. doi:10.30794/pausbed.1794611.
MLA
Yaşayan, Vahit. “IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, sy Advanced Online Publication, Mayıs 2026, doi:10.30794/pausbed.1794611.
Vancouver
1.Vahit Yaşayan. IMAGINED FLIGHTS, SHATTERED VISIONS: RETHINKING KOREAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN GARY PAK’S A RICEPAPER AIRPLANE. PAUSBED. 01 Mayıs 2026;(Advanced Online Publication). doi:10.30794/pausbed.1794611


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