Theresa Hak Kyung Ch‘’s DICTEE has been silenced and invisible, especially to Korean readers, since its publication in 1982. Its inattention results partly from the fact that the writer Cha, a Korean American woman, died too early just after it was published. Besides DICTEE is too complicated and new for conventional readers as it questions the notions of representativeness of authentic identity and the established boundaries of existing genres. It ‘performs’ with fragmented tales, pictures, (un)official documents, maps and apparently irrelevant language exercises. It is undoubtedly amazing that there appears Yu Guan Soon as a main subject in the chapter of Clio-History in this post-modern work, considering it was first published in the United States of America for the sake of being read for American readers. Cha shows that Yu is a representative woman who strived and suffered under the adversity of Korean history. However, Yu, like other women figures in DICTEE, is forgotten or neglected in the chronicles of colonialist and patriarchal history, though her struggling was a self-sacrificial devotion to her country. Therefore, Cha tries to revive and restore Yu’s name, path and actions not for or in the conventional history but in her artistic work. In reconceiving Yu in DICTEE, Cha eternalizes and reconstructs the missing narrative of Yu Guan Soon with the Korean American women subjects.
백석대학교 유관순연구소 [BAEKSEOK UNIVERSITY YUGWANSUN RESEARCH CENTER]
설립연도
2000
분야
인문학>역사학
소개
설립목적과 기능 유관순 연구소는 유관순 열사 및 그와 관련 된 분야에 대한 연구를 수행하고, 그 성과를 보급함으로써 학술 중흥을 도모하고, 국가와 지역사회의 문화 발전에 기여하고자 한다. 본연구소는 위와 같은 목적을 달성하기 위하여 다음과 같은 일을 한다. 1. 유관순 열사 관련 학술연구 및 지원. 2. 유관순 열사 관련자료 수집 및 보존. 3. 유관순 열사 관련 학술지 및 도서 간행. 4. 유관순 열사 관련 교육프로그램 개발 및 시행. 5. 국내외의 학술기관의 연구 교류 등과 같은 일을 한다.