Dictee

Dictee PDF Author: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520231122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
This autobiographical work is the story of several women. Deploying a variety of texts, documents and imagery, these women are united by suffering and the transcendance of suffering.

Exilee and Temps Morts

Exilee and Temps Morts PDF Author: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520391594
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought “the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue.” Her first book, the highly original postmodern text Dictee, is now an internationally studied work of autobiography. This volume, spanning the period between 1976 and 1982, brings together Cha’s previously uncollected writings and text-based pieces with images. Exilee and Temps Morts are two related poem sequences that explore themes of language, memory, displacement, and alienation—issues that continue to resonate with artists today. Back in print with a new cover, this stunning selection of Cha’s works gives readers a fuller view of a major figure in late twentieth-century art. Copublished by Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Dream of the Audience

The Dream of the Audience PDF Author: Constance Lewallen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520232877
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Performance art, video, ceramics, mail and stamp art, artist's books, and works on paper are part of the range of pioneering and influential work by Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha that are showcased with scholarly essays in this exhibition catalog.

Translation and Subjectivity

Translation and Subjectivity PDF Author: Naoki Sakai
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452903271
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Through the schematic representation of translation, one language is rendered in contrast to another as if the two languages are clearly different and distinct. And yet, Sakai contends, such differences and distinctions between ethnic or national languages (or cultures) are only defined once translation has already rendered them commensurate. His essays thus address translation as a means of figuring (or configuring) difference.

Everybody's Autonomy

Everybody's Autonomy PDF Author: Juliana Spahr
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817310541
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity. Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author.

Identity, Mediation, and the Cunning of Capital

Identity, Mediation, and the Cunning of Capital PDF Author: Ani Maitra
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810141817
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
In Identity, Mediation, and the Cunning of Capital, Ani Maitra urgently calls for a reevaluation of identity politics as an aesthetic maneuver regulated by capitalism. A dominant critical trend in the humanities, Maitra argues, is to dismiss or embrace identity through the formal properties of a privileged aesthetic medium such as literature, cinema, or even the performative body. In contrast, he demonstrates that identity politics becomes unavoidably real and material only because the minoritized subject is split between multiple sites of mediation—visual, linguistic, and sonic—while remaining firmly tethered to capitalism’s hierarchical logic of value production. Only in the interstices of media can we track the aesthetic conversion of identitarian difference into value, marked by the inequities of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Maitra’s archive is transnational and multimodal. Moving from anticolonial polemics to psychoanalysis to diasporic experimental literature to postcolonial feminist and queer media, he lays bare the cunning by which capitalism produces and fragments identity through an intermedial “aesthetic dissonance” with the commodity form. Maitra’s novel contribution to theories of identity and to the concept of mediation will interest a wide range of scholars in media studies, critical race and postcolonial studies, and critical aesthetics.

Don't Let Me Be Lonely

Don't Let Me Be Lonely PDF Author: Claudia Rankine
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644452561
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric, the essay, and the visual, Rankine negotiates the enduring anxieties of medicated depression, race riots, divisive elections, terrorist attacks, and ongoing wars—doom scrolling through the daily news feeds that keep us glued to our screens and that have come to define our age. First published in 2004, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a hauntingly prescient work, one that has secured a permanent place in American literature. This new edition is presented in full color with updated visuals and text, including a new preface by the author, and matches the composition of Rankine’s best-selling and award-winning Citizen and Just Us as the first book in her acclaimed American trilogy. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness—a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.

Haunting the Korean Diaspora

Haunting the Korean Diaspora PDF Author: Grace M. Cho
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816652740
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
Since the Korean Wara the forgotten wara more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and the unexamined reverberations of sexual relationships between Korean women and American soldiers.

Race and the Avant-Garde

Race and the Avant-Garde PDF Author: Timothy Yu (Ph. D.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804759979
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Race and the Avant-Garde investigates the relationship between identity and poetic form in contemporary American literature, focusing on Asian American and experimental poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Ron Silliman, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and John Yau.
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