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Wishing for a Home: Race, Class, and Global Capitalism in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée and Se-Hŭi Cho’s A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée (2000) begins with a photograph of an anonymous wall carving, which reads in Korean: “Mother, I miss you, I am hungry, I want to go home to my native place” (front.).1 And Cha finds her mother (Hyung Soon Huo) grappling with the desire to “go home.” The reason she desires it is because her family’s exile to Manchuria (to escape the Japanese occupation) and her birth there have effectively located her far away from her home, Korea. Her obligation to speak in “mandatory language” (Japanese), in particular, is taken to be indicative of her dislocation. “It is not your own. . . . The tongue that is forbidden is your own mother tongue” (45), Cha says. What Cha wants to suggest, however, is that her mother, although she is suffering from “the knowledge” “of having left,” nevertheless can find a way to satisfy her “yearning” for “being home,” proving