Online Fiction about the Expatriate Experience
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:06 pm
During the last decade I have spent three years teaching English in Korea. I have written an online short story collection about the expatriate teaching and travel experience which is available free to you and your students for use in class or simply for your reading pleasure. A brief description of the book follows below.
http://www.andycrown.net
Adoration of the Korean: Expatriate Tales Made in Korea is a free online e-book and short story collection consisting of seven stories and novellas ranging from 6,500 words to 19,000 words, each of which is set in South Korea in the 1990s and investigates the intricacies--humorous, dark, and beautiful--of cross-cultural relationships between American and other expatriate English teachers and their adult South Korean students. Moonstruck students relentlessly pursue their teachers as often as these teachers, repentant and shameless alike, pursue their students. Love is sometimes strong enough to surmount formidable barriers to mutual understanding and lasting happiness as the characters in the stories are forced to come to terms with culture clash, the problematic nature of intercultural communication, and the complicated personal problems which impelled not a few of the expatriates to abandon their native lands in the first place. All of the stories feature realistic depictions of a shared reverence for love’s purity found by people from different ends of the earth when they venture beyond the confines of home in search of a common humanity.
Regarding myself: I received my M.A. from the University of Chicago in political science in December of 1993. I have taught English, government, and history at the college and secondary levels in South Korea and the United States. I currently teach government, history, research, and writing in Chicago.
I hope you will take a look at my book and use it with your students.
Thanks,
Andrew Crown
http://www.andycrown.net
http://www.andycrown.net
Adoration of the Korean: Expatriate Tales Made in Korea is a free online e-book and short story collection consisting of seven stories and novellas ranging from 6,500 words to 19,000 words, each of which is set in South Korea in the 1990s and investigates the intricacies--humorous, dark, and beautiful--of cross-cultural relationships between American and other expatriate English teachers and their adult South Korean students. Moonstruck students relentlessly pursue their teachers as often as these teachers, repentant and shameless alike, pursue their students. Love is sometimes strong enough to surmount formidable barriers to mutual understanding and lasting happiness as the characters in the stories are forced to come to terms with culture clash, the problematic nature of intercultural communication, and the complicated personal problems which impelled not a few of the expatriates to abandon their native lands in the first place. All of the stories feature realistic depictions of a shared reverence for love’s purity found by people from different ends of the earth when they venture beyond the confines of home in search of a common humanity.
Regarding myself: I received my M.A. from the University of Chicago in political science in December of 1993. I have taught English, government, and history at the college and secondary levels in South Korea and the United States. I currently teach government, history, research, and writing in Chicago.
I hope you will take a look at my book and use it with your students.
Thanks,
Andrew Crown
http://www.andycrown.net