{"id":6645,"date":"2010-04-16T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2010-04-16T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T00:59:00","slug":"a-phantom-childhood-memories-of-my-ghost-brother-by-heinz-insu-fenkl-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6645","title":{"rendered":"A Phantom Childhood: Memories of my Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Fenkl [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreanquarterly.org\/Book_files\/Memories%20of%20My%20Ghost%20Brother.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Phantom Childhood: Memories of my Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Fenkl [Book Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreanquarterly.org\" target=\"_blank\">Korean Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\nSpring 1998<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marie Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Setting a novel from a child\u2019s point of view can be as risky a venture as, say, writing a novel in dialect. How to wrest an adult meaning from a child\u2019s unformed thoughts? But if the author can pull off such a feat, the rewards are ample, as evidenced by works such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roddy_Doyle\" target=\"_blank\">Roddy Doyle<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paddy_Clarke_Ha_Ha_Ha\" target=\"_blank\">Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sv.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reidar_J%C3%B6nsson\" target=\"_blank\">Reidar J\u00f6nsson<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Life_as_a_Dog\" target=\"_blank\">My Life as a Dog<\/a><\/em>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Twain\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn\" target=\"_blank\">Huckleberry Finn<\/a><\/em> (which manages to successfully render both a boy\u2019s point of view and his dialect).<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6634\" target=\"_blank\">Memories of My Ghost Brother<\/a><\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/heinzinsufenkl.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heinz Insu Fenkl<\/a> should be added to this list. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eponymous\" target=\"_blank\">eponymous<\/a> narrator, Heinz\/Insu is a young boy growing up as an Amerasian in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korea\" target=\"_blank\">Korea<\/a> in the \u201860s and early \u201870s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreanquarterly.org\/Book_files\/Memories%20of%20My%20Ghost%20Brother.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Phantom Childhood: Memories of my Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Fenkl [Book Review] Korean Quarterly Spring 1998 Marie Lee Setting a novel from a child\u2019s point of view can be as risky a venture as, say, writing a novel in dialect. How to wrest an adult meaning from a child\u2019s unformed thoughts? But if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,8],"tags":[2782,2788,2789],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","tag-heinz-insu-fenkl","tag-korean-quarterly","tag-marie-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","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=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}