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Three Korean American Dreams : Performing the Model Minority in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker
Cheung,King-Kok 釜山大學校 2000 人文論叢 Vol.55 No.1
Like other immigrants, many Koreans come to the United States to pursue the American Dream. In this paper I will look at the dreams of three characters in Chang-rea Lee's Native Speaker: the protagonist's immigrant father, the protagonist Henry Park, and Johm Kwang, a politician. In analyzing their dreams I ask some of the following questions: What are these Korean American dreams? Are they about individual success or do they embrace a larger social vision? Do Korean immigrants and their children share the same dream? What are the costs involved? I believe that different as the three dreams are, Henry Park, his father, and John Kwang all try to perform one aspect of the stereotype of the Asian American model minority as the self-made immigrant, the self-effacing and dutiful subordinate, and the overachiever respectively. Judith Butler argues, in her discussion of gender and performance: In imitation gender, drag implicitly reveals the imitative structure of gender.... The parody is of the very notion of an original... a production which, in effect... postures as an imitation (Butler 138). The performance of drag thus "reveals the distinctness of those aspects of gendered experience which are falsely naturalized as a unity through the regulatory fiction of heterosexual coherence" (137). A similar argument can be applied to American immigrant experience. Lee, in showing how his Asian American characters perform the model minority and American national identity, reveals the stereotype and the original "American" success story to be likewise something compulsory yet fictional.