Confronting The Immigrant’s Truth In Change Rae Lee’s Native Speaker

Abstract

Chang Rae Lee’s Native Speaker is the famous spy, diasporic novel which won several awards like the American Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award after its publication in 1995. The novel is acclaimed as one of the best novel written by 20^th century Korean American Literature. Lee explores central issues of the first and second generation Asian American experience, their struggle to assimilate, the process of finding the identity, racial discrimination, exclusion from the centre, and the dreams of the immigrants.