The wet hex /
Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence and responsibility in The Wet Hex. Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Christopher Columbus' journals and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Coffee House Press,
[2022].
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| Summary: | Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence and responsibility in The Wet Hex. Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Christopher Columbus' journals and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered. Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, in favor of indigenous Korean shamanism and animism, The Wet Hex layers an apocalyptic revision of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present, conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible. |
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| Physical Description: | 102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781566896382 156689638X |