{"product_id":"dictee-hardcover","title":"Dictee - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTheresa Hak Kyung Cha\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, \u003ci\u003eDictee \u003c\/i\u003eis a classic of modern Asian American literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDictee\u003c\/i\u003e is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This restored edition, produced in partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), reflects Cha's original vision for the book as an art object in its authentic form, featuring: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe original cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh-quality reproductions of the interior layout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDictee\u003c\/i\u003e tells 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This dynamic autobiography: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStructures the story in nine parts around the Greek Muses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLinks the women's stories to explore the trauma of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory it causes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The result is an enduringly powerful, beautiful, unparalleled work.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheresa Hak Kyung Cha's \u003ci\u003eDictee\u003c\/i\u003e is both the ancestor and the future of all attempts to remember and rewrite--against the force of being dismembered and rewritten by--colonial\/imperial histories and their reiterative, disfiguring shadows. I have, for that reason, the feeling, maybe also the fear, that neither the experience nor the revelation of it will ever come to an end.--Brandon Shimoda, PEN America Literary Award winner and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Grave on the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"You think you know what a book can do, then you read \u003ci\u003eDictee\u003c\/i\u003e. A life is split by it. A text of multiple modes and languages, moving in a staccato accumulation through histories of war and displacement, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's postcolonial classic created ways and privacies where there were none. Unimaginable what literature would be today without it.\"--Solmaz Sharif, author of \u003ci\u003eCustoms\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eDictee\u003c\/i\u003e is part memoir, part history, part experimental meditation; a challenging, innovative exploration of Cha's life, her mother's difficult immigrant journey across East Asia and to the United States, the fractured immigrant experience, women warriors, and language itself. . . . An essential work for feminist writers, conceptual artists and Asian American authors and scholars.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheresa Hak Kyung Cha\u003c\/b\u003e (1951-1982) was a poet, filmmaker, and artist who earned her BA and MA in comparative literature and her BA and MFA in art from the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 178\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42727429898303,"sku":"9780520390478","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d236dd284605b1a2ca3feeb5304636eb_fb7d68da-c36d-4f76-91d7-53ec826d8ade.webp?v=1765114786","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/dictee-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}