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Dictee

Book information

Publisher
Tanam Press
Year
1982
ISBN
093437810X, 9780934378109
LCC
PS3553.H13 D5 1982
Open Library ID
OL2787153M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
65 MB (68189756 bytes)
Pages
189\98
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982). 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 element that unites these women is 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.

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