Cruelty Special to Our Species

Emily Jungmin Yoon

HarperCollins 

Beschreibung

"e;Yoon unflinchingly illustrates the horrors suffered by Korean 'comfort women' and grapples with trauma both experienced and inherited."e; -The Paris ReviewIn her arresting debut collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called "e;comfort women,"e; women who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II.In wrenching language, A Cruelty Special to Our Species unforgettably 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. "e;What is a body in a stolen country,"e; Yoon asks. "e;What is right in war."e;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."e;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."e; -Amy Tan, #1 New York Times-bestselling author "e;A heart-wrenching debut."e; -The Washington Post"e;Lovely, moving, and ultimately devastating."e; -Chang-rae Lee, New York Times-bestselling author

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