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Korean Picture Brides
Sonia Shinn Sunoo
Korean Picture Brides
Sonia Shinn Sunoo
The Legacy of Korean Picture Brides is a collection of twenty-eight (28) oral history interviews conducted by Sonia Shinn Sunoo during the 1970s. A companion volume to her first volume of oral histories, Korea Kaleidoscope, this collection focuses on the trials and experiences of the first generation of Korean immigrant women in America. A particular focus was to capture the first-hand story of "picture brides." These women were so ready to escape the constricted Confucian society of early twentieth century Korea--and the tightening Japanese rule over their homeland--that they were willing to hand their fates over to marriage brokers seeking to find wives for Korean men who had left for Hawaii and the American mainland
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Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 23 de maio de 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780738860565 |
Editoras | Xlibris Us |
Páginas | 334 |
Dimensões | 140 × 216 × 19 mm · 426 g |
Idioma | English |
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