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Dismantling Bellicose Identities: Strategic Language Games in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE
Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity Lux, Christina
Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity
Lux, Christina
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This essay argues that Cha’s DICTEE trains the reader in strategic language games in order to resist bellicose identities. It engages contemporary studies of multilingual literature in the United States, challenging overly optimistic visions of an inclusive cosmopolitanism that elides problems of gender, race, class, and nation. Sau-ling Wong’s “Denationalization Reconsidered” is used to examine these issues in relation to defense funding, language policies, and historical tensions between ethnic studies and area studies in the US. As this essay posits, Cha addressed many of Wong’s concerns avant la lettre.
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2012-06-21
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Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Asian-American, Korean american, French, Francophone, Language games, Diaspora, Hak Kyung Cha, Theresa, Dictee, Multilingual, Translation, Language policy, Transnational, Korea, Film
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Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity; & Lux, Christina. (2012). Dismantling Bellicose Identities: Strategic Language Games in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE . Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4(1). acgcc_jtas_12835. Retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/19c9k0br