Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (page 181)
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no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Dictee
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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
Table of contents
Clio : History -- Calliope : Epic poetry -- Urania : Astronomy -- Melpomene : Tragedy -- Erato : Love poetry -- Elitere : Lyric poetry -- Thalia : Comedy -- Terpsichore : Choral dance -- Polymnia : Sacred poetry
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