This paper is a study on the Korean-American Immigrant writer, Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha's 『Dictee』(1982). This Korean-American text is no full narrative structure, no linear story. So this text is called as mixed or multiple genre rather than novel, ...
This paper is a study on the Korean-American Immigrant writer, Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha's 『Dictee』(1982). This Korean-American text is no full narrative structure, no linear story. So this text is called as mixed or multiple genre rather than novel, poetry, or prose.
This text, 『Dictee』 is very different writing from other Korean Immigrant writers, especially 1 or 1.5 immigrant generation, on the point of 'Identity'.
Identity on the text 『Dictee』, there will be arranged as follows:
1. 『Dictee』 is a writing of the author, Korean-American Immigrant writer Hak Kyung Cha's self-identity.
2. Her self-identity on the text is divided two sub-identity, family self-identity and racial or national identity.
3. This two identity is formulated in relation to others, her mother and father, mother-tongue, Yu Guan Soon, St. Theresa Martin, Japanese colonialist and Korean modem
4. On the text, 『Dictee』, her identical conscious is split between the social and true-self.
In conclusion, 『Dictee』 is a book that bring us vivid new ways of thinking about Asia-Americans, culture, and identity.