Vassar Scholarship
Writing the Forgotten War: Afro-Korean Antagonism and Solidarity in HBO’s Lovecraft Country, Toni Morrison’s Home (2012) and Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life (1999)
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2025-July-10
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This thesis uses Professor Kodai Abe's theory of Afro-Korean antagonism as a framework to understand literary depictions of relationships between Black and Korean subjects, particularly in the context of the Korean War. Professor Abe proposes that the U.S. government strategically...
