Sun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the
human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions,
and extinctions. 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's 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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