{"product_id":"dictee","title":"Dictee","description":"Newly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian American literature.\n\nDictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.\n\nThis restored edition, produced in partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), reflects Cha’s original vision for the book as an art object in its authentic form, featuring: The original cover High-quality reproductions of the interior layout\nDictee tells the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha’s mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself.\n\nThis dynamic autobiography: Structures the story in nine parts around the Greek Muses Deploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry Links the women’s stories to explore the trauma of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory it causes\nThe result is an enduringly powerful, beautiful, unparalleled work.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0520390482\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0520390482.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43880845541437,"sku":"BVV.0520390482.A","price":11.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0520390482-0.jpg?v=1792877913","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/dictee","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}