Dictée

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A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée 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 …

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Full title :Dictée / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

Summary

A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée 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:1982.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Tanam Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1982.

The Physical Object

Description:179 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : : illustrations ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:093437810X, 9780934378109, 0934378096, 9780934378093
oclc:ocm09521929
LC Classification:PS3553.H13
Dewey Decimal:811/.54

Subjects

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