- Poetry, Women, Exiles, Suffering
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.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and character-led.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- Third Woman Press, Tanam Press, University of California Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780520390492
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