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Embodied reckonings : "comfort women," performance, and transpacific redress / Elizabeth W. Son.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Son, Elizabeth W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comfort women--Korea.
- Comfort women.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Asia.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Service, Compulsory non-military--Japan.
- Service, Compulsory non-military.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Korea.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Korean.
- Reparations for historical injustices.
- Women--Crimes against--Korea.
- Women.
- Sexual abuse victims--Korea.
- Sexual abuse victims.
- Collective memory--Korea.
- Collective memory.
- Performance art--Social aspects--Korea.
- Performance art.
- Arts--Political aspects.
- Arts.
- Feminism--Korea.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages) : color illustrations, photographs
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Embodied Reckonings examines the political and cultural aspects of contemporary performances that have grappled with the history of the "comfort women," the Japanese military's euphemism for the sexual enslavement of girls and young women-mostly Korean-in the years before and during World War II. Long silent, in the early 1990s these women and their supporters initiated varied performance practices-protests, tribunals, theater, and memorial-building projects-to demand justice for those affected by state-sponsored acts of violence. The book provides a critical framework for understanding how actions designed to bring about redress can move from the political and legal aspects of this concept to its cultural and social possibilities. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research, the study argues for the central role of performance in how Korean survivors, activists, and artists have redressed the histories-and erasures-of this sexual violence. Merging cultural studies and performance theory with a transnational, feminist analysis, the book illuminates the actions of ordinary people, thus offering ways of reconceptualizing legal and political understandings of redress that tend to concentrate on institutionalized forms of state-based remediation.
- Contents:
- A Note on Transliteration and the Order of Names
- Prologue. Beginnings
- Introduction. Reckoning with Histories of Violence and Erasure
- Embodying Claims for Redress: The Wednesday Demonstrations
- Staging Justice: The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal
- Redressive Theater: Histories of "Comfort Women" on the Stage
- Performances of Care: Memorial Building in the Korean Diaspora
- Epilogue. Until the End
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472123643
- 0472123645
- OCLC:
- 1025256343
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