Dictee / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Loss (Psychology)--Poetry.

Loss (Psychology).

Suffering--Poetry.

Suffering.

Exiles--Poetry.

Exiles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Restored edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

This restored edition reflects Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s original vision and intentions for Dictee, a foundational and unparalleled text of modern Asian American literature. Dictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. This restored edition, produced in partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), reflects Cha’s original vision for the book. Featuring the original cover and high-quality reproductions of the interior layout as Cha intended them, this version of Dictee faithfully renders the book as an art object in its authentic form. A formative text of modern Asian American literature, Dictee is a dynamic autobiography that tells 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. Cha’s work manifests in nine parts structured around the Greek Muses. Deploying a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry, Cha links these women’s stories to explore the trauma of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory it causes. The result is an enduringly powerful, beautiful, unparalleled work.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

DISEUSE

IN NOMINE LENOM NOMINE

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.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 22, 2022).

ISBN:

9780520390478

9780520390485

9780520390492

0520390490

OCLC:

1350572039