Immigration, Identity Loss, and Collective Memory in Asian American Poetry: A study of Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong

Identifier:  TFG:6188

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFG6188

Authors:  González, López, Laura

Abstract:
This research aims to study Dance Dance Revolution; a contemporary collection of poems. It provides information about the author, history, and literary characteristics of Asian American literature. The study shows that Cathy Park Hong follows the characteristics of Asian American literature, dealing with its prototypical topics. It explores the book structure and its literary characteristics to prove the hybridity between poetry and narrative. Park’s poems mix several languages to invite the reader to create different interpretations of the poems. Finally, the fictional places of the plot portray the history of Asian American people and explain historical facts about Korea.