Dictee
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Dictee is an experimental, genre-blending book by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha that explores themes of language, memory, colonialism, and female identity through fragmented text and visual elements.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
autobiographical novel
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book ⓘ experimental literature work ⓘ genre-blending text ⓘ |
| author | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralFigure | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| exploresTheme |
Catholicism
NERFINISHED
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Korean history ⓘ colonialism ⓘ diaspora ⓘ female identity ⓘ imperialism ⓘ language ⓘ memory ⓘ migration ⓘ national trauma ⓘ voice and silence ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1982 ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
Asian American literature
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Korean American literature ⓘ autobiographical fiction ⓘ experimental autobiography ⓘ experimental literature ⓘ feminist literature ⓘ poetry ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ prose poetry ⓘ visual text ⓘ |
| hasPart | nine sections ⓘ |
| includesFigure |
Cha’s mother
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Joan of Arc NERFINISHED ⓘ Yu Guan Soon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesLanguage |
Chinese characters
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English NERFINISHED ⓘ French ⓘ Korean ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Asian American avant-garde
NERFINISHED
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feminist experimental writing ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hybrid form combining text and image
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influence on Asian American literature ⓘ innovative use of multilingualism ⓘ interrogation of colonial history ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publisher | Tanam Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sectionalFramework | modeled on the Greek muses ⓘ |
| structure |
fragmented
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nonlinear ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Asian American studies courses
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gender and women’s studies courses ⓘ literary theory courses ⓘ |
| usesElement |
documents
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handwritten text ⓘ multilingual passages ⓘ photographs ⓘ visual images ⓘ |
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