{"id":50907,"date":"2016-12-26T17:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50907"},"modified":"2017-02-19T23:47:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T23:47:55","slug":"patricia-park-talks-about-her-korean-american-spin-on-jane-eyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50907","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on <\/strong><\/em>Jane Eyre<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n2015-05-12<\/p>\n

Steph Cha<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPatricia Park<\/a>, author of “Re Jane<\/a>” (Allana Taranto\/Viking)<\/small><\/p>\n

What if Jane Eyre was a Korean American girl and Rochester was a English professor? Patricia Park<\/a> on ‘Re Jane<\/a>‘<\/em><\/p>\n

Patricia Park\u2019s<\/a> debut novel, \u201cRe Jane<\/a>\u201d (Pamela Dorman\/Viking: 340 pp., $27.95), is a retelling of everyone\u2019s favorite Gothic<\/a> Victorian Bront\u00eb <\/a>romance, \u201cJane Eyre<\/a>,\u201d transferred to New York<\/a> and South Korea<\/a> in the early 2000s. Her heroine, Jane Re, is a half-Korean orphan raised by her uncle\u2019s family in Flushing, Queens<\/a>, a neighborhood that feels \u201call Korean, all the time.\u201d When a prestigious post-college job offer falls through thanks to the dot-com crash<\/a>, Jane takes a job as an au pair<\/a> in Brooklyn<\/a> in order to escape Queens<\/a> and her uncle\u2019s grocery store.<\/p>\n

Her employers are Ed Farley and Beth Mazer, two Brooklyn English professors with an adopted Chinese daughter. Ed, as you may have guessed, is brooding and manly, with a strong jawline and a Brooklyn accent<\/a>\u2014pure Kryptonite<\/a> for our wide-eyed, 22-year-old Jane. He lives in the shadow of his older, more accomplished wife, an eccentric feminist scholar with an attic office, who takes it upon herself to educate their sheltered au pair.<\/p>\n

With her mixed blood and her torn loyalties, Jane embodies the confusion of both young adulthood and the hyphenated American experience. Impressionable and accommodating at the start of the novel, she struggles to find her own identity as the places and people in her life try to claim her. Her journey is a pleasure to follow, immensely rewarding and speckled with humor and romance…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre The Los Angeles Times 2015-05-12 Steph Cha Patricia Park, author of “Re Jane” (Allana Taranto\/Viking) What if Jane Eyre was a Korean American girl and Rochester was a English professor? Patricia Park on ‘Re Jane‘ Patricia Park\u2019s debut novel, \u201cRe Jane\u201d (Pamela Dorman\/Viking: 340 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,13743,8,20],"tags":[228,3909,596,25855,10028,229,25865,13272],"class_list":["post-50907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-korea","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-new-york-city","tag-patricia-park","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea","tag-steph-cha","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50940,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50907\/revisions\/50940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}