1. home
  2. Digital Library of Korean Literature
  3. Writers & Media
  4. E-News

E-News

We provide news about Korean writers and works from all around the world.

English(English) Article

Overlooked No More: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Artist and Author Who Explored Identity

About the Article

Overlooked No More: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Artist and Author Who Explored Identity
Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/obituaries/theresa-hak-kyung-cha-overlooked.html
Journal
the new york times
Issued Date
January 07, 2022
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
New York
Book
-
Writer
Cha Theresa Hak Kyung

About the Author

Writer default image
  • Cha Theresa Hak Kyung
  • Birth : 1951 ~ 1982
  • Occupation : 미술가
  • First Name : Theresa Hak Kyung
  • Family Name : Cha
  • Korean Name : Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
Descriptions - 1 Languages
  • English(English)

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1982, about three months before the publication of her avant-garde magnum opus, “Dictee,” Theresa Hak Kyung Cha wrote to her older brother, John. “It is hard to say what I feel, how I feel, except that I feel freed, and I also feel naked,” she wrote. She had been carrying the manuscript around for three years and had just turned it in to her publisher. “It feels good,” her letter said. “It feels frightening.” “Dictee” 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.

E-News3

Return to list