Rice-Nguyen, Ebonee
(2024)
Never Ceasing, Never Ending.
Undergraduate Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Since its publication in 1982, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee has gathered a critical currency within academic circles as a piece of personal ethnography that invokes a narrative of post-colonial displacement for the Korean American. At the same time, Theresa Cha’s personal biography, specifically her death, has managed to occlude the inner mechanics of Dictee and the author’s other artistic projects, resulting in the disregard of the full artistic vision within her body of work. One such critical phenomena that has gone overlooked is Theresa Cha’s own cognizance of the relationship between the artist and the audience which is reflected in her inclusion of the audience’s reactions within her creative projects as a way to form a collective memory. This project explores this relationship between artist and audience through a linear narrative describing my own bodily encounters with Cha’s work, archives, and biography. Through recounting my own experiences with Cha’s materials as a physical phenomenon, this project argues that Dictee is a work of translation, translating embodied sensations of displacement and haunting into written language and text. In conjunction with this, by exploring this line of thought through my own personal narrative, this project further explores Theresa Cha’s artistic theme of audience as my own experiences as a reader and researcher continue to add new dimensions and narratives to Cha’s body of work, functioning as a generative collective experience that is not limited to a linear chronology.
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| Item Type: |
University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
16 December 2024 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
18 November 2024 |
| Approval Date: |
16 December 2024 |
| Submission Date: |
5 December 2024 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
63 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
David C. Frederick Honors College |
| Degree: |
BPhil - Bachelor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Undergraduate Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha |
| Date Deposited: |
16 Dec 2024 13:21 |
| Last Modified: |
16 Dec 2024 13:21 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/47179 |
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