Skirt Full of Black

Description:

As Sun Yung Shin spins new myths from Catholic and Buddhist traditions and bestows new connotations upon the characters of the Korean alphabet, she gives voice to the spiritual and cultural hunger of transnational adoptees, crafting a nuanced, unique language for navigating the politics of gender, ethnicity, and identity.

subjects: Adoptees,  Immigrants,  Korean Americans,  Koreans,  Poetry,  American poetry,  Asian American authors,  Korean American authors,  Women authors,  American women authors,  Asian American women authors,  Korean American women authors,  Poetry (poetic works by one author)

Places: United States