2022.04.03 14:05
https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/25060635
한국계 미국인 아티스트, 미셸 자우너. [문학동네]
엄마와 한 번도 안 싸워본 딸도 이 넓은 세상에 없진 않겠지만, 모녀 간의 애증은 창작의 주요 에너지원이다. 한국계 미국인 뮤지션이자 작가인 미셸 자우너(33)에게도 역시 그렇다. 한국인으로 나고 자란 그의 어머니의 미국인 딸로 자라면서 자우너는 “우리 엄마만 왜 이렇지”라고 생각했다고 한다. 엄마를 암으로 잃고 그는 『H마트에서 울다』(문학동네)라는 책을 써냈다. 엄마와의 갈등과 사랑을 가감없이 그려낸 이 책은 버락 오바마 전 미국 대통령의 추천서로 등극했다. 지난해엔 뉴욕타임스(NYT) 베스트셀러와 아마존의 ‘올해의 책’ 리스트에도 올랐다. 최근 한국어판을 출간한 그를 이메일로 만났다.
2022.04.03 17:31
2022.04.03 17:55
https://youtu.be/TW0m4IwHnCY
CBS: Michelle Zauner on "Crying in H-Mart"
https://youtu.be/Wg1QB44pbbE
Time100: Cathy Park Hong on "Minor Feelings
An Asian American Reckoning"
*I found that I am much more accepting of how
I am treated in this country as an Asian American than
my children are. They demand equality more than
I do. They look at history more critically than I do.
"I am here(America) because you(Americans) were there(Korea)."
I am here because you vivisected my ancestral country into two. In 1945,
two fumbling mid-ranking American officers who know nothing about the country
used a National Geographic map as a reference to arbitrary cut a border to
make North and South Korea, a division that eventually separated millions
of families, including my own grandmother from her family. Later under
the flag of liberation, the United States dropped more bombs and napalms
in our tiny country more than during the entire Pacific campaign against Japan
during World War II. A fascinating little known story about the Korean War
is that an American Surgeon, David Ralph Millard stationed there to treat burn
victims invented a double-eyelid surgical procedure to make Asian eyes
look Western, which he ended up testing on Korean sex workers so they
could be more attractive to GIs. Now, it's the most popular surgical procedure
for women in Korea.
My ancestral country is just one of small examples of the millions of lives
and resources you have sucked from the Philippines, Cambodia, Honduras,
Mexico, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, El Salvador, and many, many other nations
through your forever wars and transnational capitalism that have mostly
enriched shareholders in the States. Don't talk to me about gratitude.
Quote from the book "Minor Feelings An Asian American Reckoning"
by Cathy Park Hong