DicteeDictee 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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User Review - heathrel - LibraryThingComposed by a young Korean-American performance artist who was killed far too early, this text brings together many of the pieces of her early visual and aural life. The reader is asked to follow the ... Read full review
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User Review - whitewavedarling - LibraryThingNeedlessly complicated, this work tries diligently to transcend genre and linear trains of thought, but as a result becomes overtly abstract and difficult to follow. More of a collage than a coherent ... Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 74 |
Section 2 | 95 |
Section 3 | 98 |
Section 4 | 101 |
Section 5 | 102 |
Section 6 | 104 |
Section 7 | 109 |
Section 8 | 110 |
Section 9 | 113 |
Section 10 | 146 |
Section 11 | 177 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Dictee Literature / University of California: Art |
| Author | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0520231120, 9780520231122 |
| Length | 179 pages |
| Subjects | › Poetry / General |
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