To understand how Dictee functions as a kut, it becomes important to review how Korean shamans use exorcisms toįree people from various physical, psychological, and spiritual limitations or ailments. Liberation of the Korean spirit from these demons. These exorcisms unfold before the reader who experiences the Performed by various shamans, mystics, and martyrs. Ritual of exorcisms, a 'kut.' Dictee as an elaborate kut is Dictee is no ordinary book instead, it can be viewed as an elaborate Korean The Korean spirit, trapped, exiled and detained from returning home by various demons: the tyranny of JapaneseĬolonialism, the desolation of the Korean War, the betrayal of political corruption, and the cultural gapsīetween a mother and a daughter. However, the main character is not the normal hero instead, the main character is

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is a Korean Odyssey,Īnd the journey home is full of danger, confusion, and finally hope. These words and introduces the overall theme of the book. I want to go home.' On opening the book Dictee, a picture of Korean calligraphy (hangul) presents Gazing upwards at what is Reality itself. With a god, looking down upon what we now assert to be real and a remembering of what our soul once saw as it made its journey

Write down the following sentences in English as I dictate them. New York: University Press of America,Ĭan you read and write in English? Yes_. In Korea and Regional Geopolitics, Walter Jung and Xiao-Bing Li (editors). Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, Exorcisms from Demons

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