Name: Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun. An Elegy
SKU: 65869982
Price: 35940.00 CRC
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Author: Crystal Mun-hye Baik
ISBN: 9781478033769

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Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun. An Elegy

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Duke University Press

Autor

Crystal Mun-hye Baik

Colección

Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Año

2026

N° páginas

176

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9781478033769

Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun. An Elegy

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In Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun, Crystal Mun-hye Baik offers an intimate cultural history of war, illness, banishment, and estrangement through the experiential lens of her family. Beginning with her father's death and mother's psychiatric hold in 2022, Baik situates her parents’ lives within the enmeshed narratives of Japanese colonialism, war, and transoceanic migration, examining Korean diasporic grief as a felt form of thinking and writing, rather than an object of study. In doing so, she reckons with diasporic genealogies of precarity that have configured the everyday lives of her parents and ancestral communities. Blending different genres from narrative prose to visual essay, epistles to ancestral mourning rites, Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun is a meditation on the personal and ethical entanglements scholars must confront when they are implicated in the histories of violence they study.