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 blends different genres, from narrative prose to epistles to ancestral mourning rites, to offer an intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement through the experiential lens of her family.
Keywords
Korean diaspora; Diasporic grief; Korean War; Japanese colonialism; Mourning rituals; Memory studies; Feminist writing; Separation; North Korea; South Korea; Military occupation; Colonialism; Colonial complicity; Estrangement; Memory; Family letters; Diaspora; Eclipse; Baik Cheol; Chronic depression; Family separation; Patriarchy; Disability; Diasporic family album; Photograph; Memory keeper; Jeju Island; Mourning ritual; Protest culture; Korean shamanism; Translation; Erasure poetry; Letter-writing; Jesa ceremony; Buddhist mourning rites; Ghosts; Silence; Protection spell; Ancestral communities; Enji Chung; Solar eclipseDOI
10.1215/9781478062257ISBN
9781478062257, 9781478062257, 9781478094609, 9781478033769, 9781478038641Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, North Carolina USA, 2026Series
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies,Classification
Feminism and feminist theory
Refugees and political asylum