Sonia Ryang is associate professor of anthropology and international studies at the University of Iowa.

Writing Selves in Diaspora is a work born out of long-term fieldwork by the author, Sonia Ryang, in Japan and the United States, spanning more than one and a half decades. It offers an unprecedented insight into Korean women's lives and their formation of self in diaspora in Japan and the United States.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Many Ways to Be Korean-and Something Else: An Inquiry into the Self Chapter 3 2. Love and Diaspora: Romantic Autobiography of a Korean Woman in Japan Chapter 4 3. A Letter from Afar: Totalitarianism, Neoliberalism, and Self-Reference Chapter 5 4. Diaspora and the Ethic of Care: A Note on Disability, Aging, and the Vulnerability of the De-nationalized Chapter 6 5. Terra Incognita: Family Maps of Diaspora