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A young Korean teenage girl walks onto a silent stage, carrying a small suitcase. The silence is broken by a voice that says in Korean, ‘She had come from afar.’
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictée (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001), p. 1.
Elaine H. Kim and Norma Alarcon, eds, Writing Self, Writing Nation: A Collection of Essays on Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Berkeley, CA: Third Woman Press, 1994), p. 19.
Jin-Hee Yim, ‘The Self/Language/Nation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée’, Journal of American Studies, 28:1 (Summer 1996): 205–27.
For further discussion of Han, see Jung-Soon Shim, ‘The Shaman and the Epic Theatre: the Nature of Han in the Korean Theatre’, New Theatre Quarterly, XX (August 2004): 216–24.
http://www.galatea.nu/skantze/myths.html. Accessed 8 September 2006.
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Shim, JS. (2007). Reconstructing a Diasporic Female Self in O Kyong-Sook’s Dictee — A Speaking Woman. In: Aston, E., Case, SE. (eds) Staging International Feminisms. Studies in International Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287693_9
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