Starting with the observation that the Korean War is not properly represented in American historiography nor accounted for in American cultural memory, the article contends that it is only recently with the new wave of Asian (Korean) American authors that the war gets the recognition it deserves. The revision of the Korean War takes place in the ambit of an Asian American critique, as recently articulated by Jodi Kim, that re-centers attention from the European to the Asian axis of the Cold War. In the remainder of the essay, a reading of two transnational Asian American novels is offered that exemplifies a triangulated and transnationalized view of the war. The novels under consideration are Susan Choi's The Foreign Student (1998) and Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (2010).
