Comfort women of the Japanese empire: colonial rule and the battle over memory
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Beteilige Person: Bag, Yu ha 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Koreanisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge 2024
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 194
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Abstract:"This is an important and controversial book, hitherto available only in Korean, Japanese and Chinese, a book which has been subject to court cases attempting to have some parts of the book deleted. The author reconsiders the issue of the "comfort women", that is the Korean women who were compelled to provide sexual comfort to Japanese troops during the Asia-Pacific War. She explores the human complexity of the experiences of these women, who despite terrible exploitation, she feels, cannot and should not only be considered only as passive victims. She sets the issue in context, revealing how Korean society played a role, with patriarchy and middlemen being significant factors in the procurement of comfort women, and how alongside the comfort women there were volunteer labour corps of Korean young women supporting the Japanese war effort. She highlights Korea's colonial status, different from the territories Japan invaded and conquered, discusses how relations between colonisers and colonised in an empire are not straightforward, and argues that people should work to understand more fully the mindset of those at the time, and refrain from forcing values from the present to resolve indignities of the past. Aiming at finding a way to pursue reconciliation while looking more closely at the history, the book provides substantial consideration of key issues to do with empire, memorialization, and censorship, and is an uncomfortable read for those seeking simplistic interpretations and simplistic solutions"
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:xxxix, 215 Seiten Illustrationen 24,3 cm
ISBN:9781032566443
9781032566504