Dictee - Softcover

Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520261291 ISBN 13: 9780520261297

Verlag: University of California Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

"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.

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Críticas:

"Dictee enlarges the notion of what a book is. . . .because it is ephemeral, fragile, fierce, and indelible, because it is subversive, because it years and is luminous." * Spin * "Dictee was one of the first books that taught me the transformative power that art could have on the material of a life-that conceptual art wasn't only populated by urban white folks, and lives like Cha's or mine or my mother's could make a strange and wild home there, too." -- Elaine Castillo, * Electric Lit * "[Dictee] addresses themes of time, language, and memory that recur in much of the artist's work while incorporating multiple forms of media, language, and historical material. . . .Nine chapters, structured around the muses of Greek mythology, result in a form that is novel, prose poem, biography, and photo book all at once." * Hyperallergic * "All writers who play with form that have come since are indebted to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, often without even knowing it. . . .thrillingly impossible to categorize, those who tried often described it as novel or autobiography-even though it employ[s] techniques of film and poetry, among others, and invoked a collection of women, ranging from the Korean freedom fighter Yu Guan Soon to Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc." * Kenyon Review * "I love the way it remains as radical a text as it was when I first found it, daring to hold a space open somewhere in between several genres, and to let tensions remain unresolved, or ambiguous, to pursue if not the articulation of the inarticulate, then, to let the reader experience what is inarticulate within themselves still in a space that makes room for it or even values it." -- Alexander Chee, * Electric Lit * "Reads like a secret dossier, stuffed with epistles and pictures, religion, and dreams." * Village Voice Literary Supplement *

Biografía del autor:

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 Dictee.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0520261291
• ISBN 13: 9780520261297
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192