Dictee / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, author.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Suffering.

Loss (Psychology)--Poetry.

Loss (Psychology).

Suffering--Poetry.

Exiles--Poetry.

Exiles.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

179 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm

Edition:

First California paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.

Language Note:

Portions of text in English and French.

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.

Contents:

Clio : History

Calliope : Epic poetry

Urania : Astronomy

Melpomene : Tragedy

Erato : Love poetry

Elitere : Lyric poetry

Thalia : Comedy

Terpsichore : Choral dance

Polymnia : Sacred poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 181).

Other Format:

Online version: Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. Dictee.

ISBN:

0520231120

9780520231122

9780520261297

0520261291

OCLC:

46366303

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