Dictee / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Author: Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung
Published: Berkeley, CA ; London : University of California Press, 2009.
Copyright Date: ©2001
Edition: Second paperback printing.
Physical Description: 179 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 21 cm

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Portions of text in English and French.

Summary

Dictée 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, 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. --amazon.com.

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Poetry

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9780520261297 (pbk.)
0520261291 (pbk.)

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Originally published in 1982 by Tanam Press ; First Third Woman Press printing 1995 ; First California paperback edition 2001.--Verso page.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (page 181).

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