Dictee

by Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung

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Title Statements

Full title :Dictee / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

Summary

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictee is the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha's mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself. The elements that unite these women are suffering and the transcendence of suffering. The book is divided into nine parts structured around the Greek Muses. Cha deploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry to explore issues of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory. The result is a work of power, complexity, and enduring beauty.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2001
Edition:First California paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2001

The Physical Object

Description:179 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : : illustrations, 1 map ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0520231120, 9780520231122, 9780520261297, 0520261291
oclc:ocm46366303
LC Classification:PS3553.H13
Dewey Decimal:811/.54

Subjects

Exiles Exiles -- Poetry Femmes -- Poésie Loss (Psychology) Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry Perte (Psychologie) -- Poésie Poésie Poetry Souffrance -- Poésie Suffering Suffering -- Poetry Women Women -- Poetry