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- Dictee is not a typical novel with a narrative arc, but a collection of poetical evocations, images, calligraphy, and photographs that is better experienced as poetry than read as prose.
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Dictée is a 1982 book by Korean American author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Considered to be Cha's magnum opus, the book, a genre-bending poetry collection, focuses on several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Gwan Soon, Joan of Arc, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Demeter and Persephone, Cha's mother Hyun Soon Huo, and Cha herself. All these women ...
Oct 1, 1982 · 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.
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Dictee is not a typical novel with a narrative arc, but a collection of poetical evocations, images, calligraphy, and photographs that is better experienced as poetry than read as prose. In parts, images and blank spaces carry as much emotional depth as the text.
Aug 20, 2020 · The South Korean–born author of Dictée was killed at 31. Four decades later, her landmark experimental novel is poised for wider rediscovery.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee (1982) is a hybrid form of prose poetry, autobiography, ethnography, criticism, and fictional experiments. Cha was a Korean American visual artist, poet, and filmmaker. She was tragically murdered only a week after the book was published.
Aug 30, 2017 · It’s an experimental novel divided up into nine different sections, each one themed around a different Greek muse. It takes its name from the education exercise of dictée, where you copy down spoken language and try to transfer it faithfully and accurately into written form.
Dictee is a rare book that straddles these two seemingly unrelated domains of post-structuralist art and ethnic studies. In our cultural hierarchy, we typically think of the former as cerebral, inorganic, and deracialized and the latter as pure anthropological testimony—the white mind versus the racialized body.
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