Heidi Kim

Bio

Heidi Kim is a Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her most recent book is Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Literature (Temple University Press, 2021). She is currently writing on the aftermath of Japanese American incarceration reparations.

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Sometime last year, I came across an article in which the director Lee Isaac Chung described the formative influence of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia on his 2020 film Minari. I knew then that I needed to find the right person—or people—to explore these narratives of immigrant families in the harsh and beautiful environs of the rural United States, which form a tether from the modernist moment to the present. The result is this moving and insightful epistolary conversation between Rachel Warner, a...