" Dictée was one of the first books that taught me the transformative power that art could have on the material of a life-that conceptual art wasn’t only populated by urban white folks, and lives like Cha’s or mine or my mother’s could make a strange and wild home there, too." "It remains as radical a text as it was when I first found it, daring to hold a space open somewhere in between several genres, and to let tensions remain unresolved, or ambiguous, to pursue if not the articulation of the inarticulate, then, to let the reader experience what is inarticulate within themselves still in a space that makes room for it or even values it." "All writers who play with form that have come since are indebted to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, often without even knowing it." Dictée has spent decades as a cult classic, becoming a fixture of Asian American and feminist studies syllabi across the country.” "A fringe classic for students of women’s studies, book arts, and poetry." "Too often, of course, the colonizing function of language goes about its invisible work without comment, but in Dictée each scene, each image, each poem or letter purposefully refers us back to it." "Cha made quiet work with a disquieting impact." "Reads like a secret dossier, stuffed with epistles and pictures, religion, and dreams."
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