resa Hak Kyung Cha - Dictee - Hardback

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The Author Name is Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
The Title is Dictee

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Newly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Chaa€s masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian American literature. DicteeA 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 Chaa€s original vision for the book as an art object in its authentic form, featuring: The original coverHigh-quality reproductions of the interior layoutDictee tells the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Chaa€s mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself. This dynamic autobiography: Structures the story in nine parts around the Greek MusesDeploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiryLinks the womena€s stories to explore the trauma of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory it causes The result is an enduringly powerful, beautiful, unparalleled work.

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