EAST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Victimology, Sexual Slavery, Korean Ethnic Nationalism
31 May 2016
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Memory and counter memory : comfort women and gendered nationalism. Remembering the korean military comfort women: nationalism, sexuality, and silencing hyunah. Sk newspapers and testimonies of the surviving mcw (newspapers from september 1990- november. 1993, when docs were discovered and public awareness was high) A japanese schoolteacher confessed that she had recruited cw btw ages of 12 and 14. These records had existed in k for 50 years, w/o being publicized or investigated. Media representations are treated as texts that reveal prevailing social sentiments. Contrasted w/ testimonial narratives as counter-discourse, where official memory can be confused. Yang : us has been complicit in (postwar ) Deployment of atomic bombs: shame and guilt : the victims, offenders, and witnesses remained silent about the existence of a system of military sexual slavery. Lack of research on these subjects until the 90s. Where were the k teachers, who should have been aware of the draft activities that were.
