| Title : | Dictée | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Author | | Publisher: | University of California Press | | Publication Date: | 1982 | | ISBN (or other code): | CHAFEM1982 | | Languages : | English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Feminism
| | Keywords: | Feminism, Suffering, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Intermedia, Literature, Art | | Abstract: | 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 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. |
Dictée [printed text] / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Author . - [S.l.] : University of California Press, 1982. ISSN : CHAFEM1982 Languages : English ( eng) | Descriptors: | Feminism
| | Keywords: | Feminism, Suffering, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Intermedia, Literature, Art | | Abstract: | 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 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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Dictée / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
