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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in Black and White

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in Black and White
  • Josephine Nock-Hee Park
  • Published online:
    03 August 2023
    Print publication:
    24 August 2023
  • Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in Black and White explores the relation between text, author, and reader – a nexus theorized as the 'apparatus' in Cha's study of cinema – by tracing two key literary intertexts in Dictée: Henry James's 'The Jolly Corner,' a submerged literary resonance in Apparatus, Cha's anthology of film theory, and the writing of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, a primary intertext at the heart of Dictée. In Cha's film theory, black and white is the flicker of the cinematic apparatus, and the Elements readings consider this contrasting palette in self-reflexive portraits in black and white. This study reads flashes of identification, often in punishing self-encounters, and it dwells on the figure of the martyr to arrive at the death of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, the patron saint of artists and scholars fascinated by her art and her suffering.

  • 27 - The American War in Viet Nam and Its Diasporas

  • from Part V - Post-1965 and the Twenty-First Century
  • Edited by Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Min Hyoung Song, Boston College, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    01 December 2015, pp 469-483

  • Summary

    The ascent of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée into the Asian American literary canon in the early 1990s marks the precise moment when theory enters into Asian American studies. While Dictée has often been read as exemplary of a move away from identity toward theoretical abstraction, it may be more accurate to view it as a divided text that moves ambivalently between the needs of identity politics and the demands of theoretical critique. Early publications and anthologies drew on a range of disciplinary methodologies, while also being influenced by the radical politics of the Asian American movement. The readings of Dictée advanced in Writing Self, Writing Nation brings Asian American studies into direct contact with theory. In these readings, the impact of theory, both in Dictée and in its interpretation, is primarily deconstructive, challenging the narratives of identity, unity, and nationalism that have formed the traditional basis for Asian American studies.