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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Born

in Pusan, Korea, Republic of

March 04, 1951

Died

November 05, 1982

Genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Most famous for her experimental memoir/novel, Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is a Korean American writer, filmmaker and performance artist. She was born in Pusan, Korea, during the Korean War, but relocated with her parents to San Francisco, California. The interdisciplinary nature of Dictee, which combines narrative, poetry, movie stills, family photos and an array of other genres and forms, and written in various languages, reflects her own varied education. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned both an M.F.A. and M.A. (in Comparative Literature). She later relocated to Paris, France, where she studied film and brushed elbows with a number of well-known French filmmakers.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 4,353 ratings · 540 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dictee 4.04 avg rating — 4,015 ratings — published 1982 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World by Jessica Hagedorn (Introduction), Christina Chiu (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Peter Ho Davies (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exilée and Temps Morts: Selected Works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Constance M. Lewallen (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Constance Lewallen (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apparatus, Cinematographic Apparatus: Selected Writings by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Editor, Contributor), Bertrand Augst (Contributor), Roland Barthes (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Are They So Afraid of the Lotus? (A Series of Open Questions, #2) by Jeanne Gerrity (Editor), Kim Nguyen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Divya Mehra (Contributor) 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clio History 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Why resurrect it all now. From the Past. History, the old wound. The past emotions all over again. To confess to relive the same folly. To name it now so as not to repeat history in oblivion. To extract each fragment by each fragment from the word from the image another word another image the reply that will not repeat history in oblivion.”
― Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

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“I have the documents. Documents, proof, evidence, photograph, signature. One day you raise your right hand and you are American. They give you an American Pass port. The United States of America. Somewhere someone has taken my identity and replaced it with their photograph. The other one. Their signature their seals. Their own image. And you learn the executive branch the legislative branch and the third. Justice. Judicial branch. It makes the difference The rest is past.”
― Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

tags: documentation, evidence, injustice, justice, system

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“There is no destination other than towards yet another refuge from yet another war. Many generations pass and many deceptions in the sequence in the chronology towards the destination.”
― Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

tags: displacement, emigration, immigration, refuge, refugees, war

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