Book
Dictee / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Record details
- ISBN: 0520231120
- ISBN: 9780520231122
- ISBN: 9780520261297
- ISBN: 0520261291
- Physical Description: 179 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 21 cm
- Edition: First California paperback edition.
- Publisher: Berkeley ; University of California Press, 2001.
- Copyright: ©2001.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in 1982 by Tanam Press."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page [181]). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Clio : History -- Calliope : Epic poetry -- Urania : Astronomy -- Melpomene : Tragedy -- Erato : Love poetry -- Elitere : Lyric poetry -- Thalia : Comedy -- Terpsichore : Choral dance -- Polymnia : Sacred poetry. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
| Language Note: | Portions of text in English and French. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Women > Poetry. Loss (Psychology) > Poetry. Suffering > Poetry. Exiles > Poetry. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
