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dc.creatorHwang, Junghyun
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-07T23:05:25Z
dc.date.available2012-06-07T23:05:25Z
dc.date.created2001
dc.date.issued2001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2001-THESIS-H89
dc.descriptionDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item.en
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 68-72).en
dc.descriptionIssued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.en
dc.description.abstractTaking Cha's novel Dictě as a critical illustration, this study addresses some questions about the writing of history in search of a historiography that does not gloss over muffled stories of some in order to legitimize celebrated stories of others. In light of Walter Benjamin's theses on history, historicism or the Enlightenment notion of history is compared with historical materialism. The U.S. frontier thesis is taken as an example of historicist writing and performative repetition as an effective strategy of a materialist historiography. Dictě is a historical text that grapples with the tasks of historical materialism. Cha rips the particular history of modern Korea out of universal history, juxtaposes multiple stories of diverse individuals and of different dimensions, and envisions the twentieth-century history of Korea in a dynamic relationship with the world history for a future that does not repeat tragedies of the past. As such, this study argues for historical materialism as a useful mode of critical intervention in the complex cultural phenomena of the late capitalist world.en
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherTexas A&M University
dc.rightsThis thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use.en
dc.subjectEnglish.en
dc.subjectMajor English.en
dc.title"To brush history against the grain": toward a historiography of dialectical materialism and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dicteéen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
dc.type.genrethesisen
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