Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun
An Elegy
| dc.contributor.author | Mun-hye Baik, Crystal | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-04-16T11:43:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-04-16T11:43:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.identifier | ONIX_20260415T184305_9781478062257_4 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112411 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFG Refugees and political asylum | |
| dc.subject.other | Korean diaspora | |
| dc.subject.other | Diasporic grief | |
| dc.subject.other | Korean War | |
| dc.subject.other | Japanese colonialism | |
| dc.subject.other | Mourning rituals | |
| dc.subject.other | Memory studies | |
| dc.subject.other | Feminist writing | |
| dc.subject.other | Separation | |
| dc.subject.other | North Korea | |
| dc.subject.other | South Korea | |
| dc.subject.other | Military occupation | |
| dc.subject.other | Colonialism | |
| dc.subject.other | Colonial complicity | |
| dc.subject.other | Estrangement | |
| dc.subject.other | Memory | |
| dc.subject.other | Family letters | |
| dc.subject.other | Diaspora | |
| dc.subject.other | Eclipse | |
| dc.subject.other | Baik Cheol | |
| dc.subject.other | Chronic depression | |
| dc.subject.other | Family separation | |
| dc.subject.other | Patriarchy | |
| dc.subject.other | Disability | |
| dc.subject.other | Diasporic family album | |
| dc.subject.other | Photograph | |
| dc.subject.other | Memory keeper | |
| dc.subject.other | Jeju Island | |
| dc.subject.other | Mourning ritual | |
| dc.subject.other | Protest culture | |
| dc.subject.other | Korean shamanism | |
| dc.subject.other | Translation | |
| dc.subject.other | Erasure poetry | |
| dc.subject.other | Letter-writing | |
| dc.subject.other | Jesa ceremony | |
| dc.subject.other | Buddhist mourning rites | |
| dc.subject.other | Ghosts | |
| dc.subject.other | Silence | |
| dc.subject.other | Protection spell | |
| dc.subject.other | Ancestral communities | |
| dc.subject.other | Enji Chung | |
| dc.subject.other | Solar eclipse | |
| dc.title | Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun | |
| dc.title.alternative | An Elegy | |
| dc.type | book | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.1215/9781478062257 | |
| oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478062257 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478094609 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478033769 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478038641 | |
| oapen.pages | 198 | |
| oapen.place.publication | Durham, North Carolina USA |

