Emily Jungmin Yoon

A Cruelty Special to Our Species (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Yoon unflinchingly illustrates the horrors suffered by Korean 'comfort women' and grapples with trauma both experienced and inherited." -The Paris Review In her arresting debut collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular onKoreanso-called "comfort women," women who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II. In wrenching language,A Cruelty Special to Our Speciesunforgettably describes the brutalities of war and the fear and sorrow of those whose lives and bodies were swept up by a colonizing power, bringing powerful voice to an oppressed group of people whose histories have often been erased and overlooked. "What is a body in a stolen country," Yoon asks. "What is right in war." Moving readers through time, space, and different cultures, and bringing vivid life to the testimonies and confessions of the victims, Yoon takes possession of a painful and shameful history even while unearthing moments of rare beauty in acts of resistance and resilience, and in the instinct to survive and bear witness. "Reaching back to a historical trauma well before her own time, Emily Jungmin Yoon finds language to convey its horror and violence-painfully and unsparingly but somehow also with a delicacy, precision, and attention that does not impose the true (literal) brutality on the reader . . . This is an engaging, urgent book by a writer we must listen to." -Amy Tan, #1 New York Times-bestselling author "A heart-wrenching debut." -The Washington Post "Lovely, moving, and ultimately devastating." -Chang-rae Lee, New York Times-bestselling author

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062843692
• Artikelnr.: 53942173

Autorenporträt

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes, the 2017 winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize by Tupelo Press. Yoon was born in Busan, Republic of Korea and received her BA at the University of Pennsylvania and MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. She has been the recipient of awards and fellowships from Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest, AWP's WC&C Scholarship Competition, and the Poetry Foundation, among others. Her poems and translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, POETRY, The New York Times Magazine, and Korean Literature Now. She currently serves as the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and is a PhD student studying Korean literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.