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- Title
The Wounds of History and the Strategies for Survival in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée.
- Authors
DAMAI, PUSPA
- Abstract
This article revisits Korean American author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s experimental and quasi-autobiographical “novel,” Dictée. Cha’s work has been discussed primarily from the point of view of American ethnic studies by focusing on the issues of immigration, assimilation, race, gender, and ethnicity. Some of the readers of Cha’s texts also highlight the author’s proclivity for avant-gardist and postmodernist experimentations. This article deploys the lenses of critical theory (Agamben), deconstruction (Derrida and Nancy), and postcolonial theory (Bhabha and Spivak) to argue that the subject emerging from Cha’s works occupies the spaces of exception, spectrality, and subalternity.
- Subjects
DICTEE (Book); CHA, Theresa Hak Kyung, 1951-1982; EXPERIMENTAL fiction; CRITICAL theory; DECONSTRUCTION; POSTCOLONIALISM
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 4, p34
- ISSN
0252-8169
- Publication type
Literary Criticism