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 · Emily Jungmin Yoon, author of "A Cruelty Special to Our Species":: korea  · A Cruelty Special to Our Species documents contemporary and historical narratives, focusing, in part, on narratives of sexual violence against so-called “comfort women,” (primarily) Korean women living during World War II, who were forced into sexual labor in order to serve Japanese soldiers. The book also meditates on the aftermath of natural disasters, the power dynamics involved in Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. 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. “What is a body in a stolen country,” Yoon asks.5/5(26).

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A Cruelty Special to Our Species documents contemporary and historical narratives, focusing, in part, on narratives of sexual violence against so-called “comfort women,” (primarily) Korean women living during World War II, who were forced into sexual labor in order to serve Japanese soldiers. The book also meditates on the aftermath of natural disasters, the power dynamics involved in speaking multiple tongues, the contemporary injustices of women enduring a long line of exoticizing and. In her arresting 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 “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 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. By Emily Jungmin Yoon. "Mungyeong, Korea," Gap Chul Lee, (). From the collection of the Korean Art Museum Association. Emily Jungmin Yoon collects testimony and confronts history in her debut collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, which publishes today from Ecco Press.