Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun

An Elegy

Crystal Mun-hye Baik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3376-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Crystal Mun-hye Baik is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside and is the author of Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique.

Note to Readers vii
An End Is a Return to the Beginning 1
I. Father
The Eye of the Storm 23
The Wind Phone 45
II. Mother
A Cooking Lesson
The Diasporic Family Album
III. The Memory Keeper
Grief and Return
Posthumous Translation
IV. Invocation
A Protection Spell / Cristiana Kyung-hye Baik
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Credits

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Zusatzinfo	34 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3376-2 / 1478033762
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3376-9 / 9781478033769
Zustand	Neuware