Minor Salvage: The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings

by Stephen Hong Sohn

The Korean War, often invoked in American culture as "the forgotten war," remains ongoing. Though active fighting only occurred between 1950 and 1953, the signing of an armistice resulted in an infamous stalemate and the construction of the Korean Peninsula's Demilitarized Zone. Minor Salvage reads early Korean American life writings in order to explore the admittedly partial ways in which those made precarious by war seek to rebuild their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472075209
• ISBN13: 9780472075201
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"