Before the fire dogs steal the sun : an elegy / Crystal Mun-hye Baik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baik, Crystal Mun-hye, author.

Series:

Next wave (Duke University Press)

Next wave: new directions in women's studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baik, Crystal Mun-hye.

Collective memory--Korea.

Collective memory.

Grief.

Korean War, 1950-1953.

Korean Americans--Biography.

Korean Americans.

Koreans--United States.

Koreans.

Korean diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"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 draws on diasporic grief as a felt form of thinking and writing, rather than an object of study. Drawing from her interdisciplinary training in Korean diasporic studies, feminist memory work, and cosmologies of grief and ancestral mourning, Baik situates her parents' lives within the enmeshed arcs of Japanese colonialism, war, division, and transoceanic migration. In doing so, she reckons with diasporic genealogies of precarity that have configured the everyday lives of her parents and ancestral communities. Drawing on diasporic grief as a praxis of thinking and writing, Baik offers a reparative approach to remembering through the gifts of listening and returning. Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sunis a meditative study consisting of different genres of speculative writing that span from narrative prose and the visual essay to the epistolary mode and ancestral mourning rites"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An End is a Return to the Beginning

아버지 / Father

The Eye of the Storm

The Wind Phone

어머니/ Mother

A Cooking Lesson

The Diasporic Family Album

The Memory Keeper

Grief & Return

Posthumous Translation

Invocation

A Protection Spell, by Cristiana Kyung-hye Baik

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project Muse, viewed May 12, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Baik, Crystal Mun-hye Before the fire dogs steal the sun

ISBN:

1-4780-9460-5

9781478094609

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access