Dictee - Softcover

Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520261291 ISBN 13: 9780520261297

Publisher: University of California Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) was a poet, filmmaker, and artist. In 1982, Cha was murdered by a stranger in New York City, just a few days after the original publication of Dictée.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0520261291
• ISBN 13: 9780520261297
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192