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Dictee
Dictee | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982). 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 element that unites these women is 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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vlwelser
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This is more like performance art than any book I've ever read. The awful thing is the author was murdered right after it came out and it seems like the police did nothing to discover what happened. There is a long essay in Minor Feelings about it (most interesting part of that imo).

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TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2y
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RickMoody
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Such a revolution!

BookHabits I love that! 9y
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