Title Embodied reckonings : "comfort women," performance, and transpacific redress / Elizabeth W. Son

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations Contents Intro; Contents; A Note on Transliteration and the Order of Names; Prologue. Beginnings; Introduction. Reckoning with Histories of Violence and Erasure; Chapter 1. Embodying Claims for Redress: The Wednesday Demonstrations; Chapter 2. Staging Justice: The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal; Chapter 3. Redressive Theater: Histories of "Comfort Women" on the Stage; Chapter 4. Performances of Care: Memorial Building in the Korean Diaspora; Epilogue. Until the End; Notes; Bibliography; Index 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 03, 2018) Subject Comfort women -- Korea World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Asia Service, Compulsory non-military -- Japan World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Korea World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Korean Reparations for historical injustices. Women -- Crimes against -- Korea Sexual abuse victims -- Korea Collective memory -- Korea Performance art -- Social aspects -- Korea Arts -- Political aspects Feminism -- Korea HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. ART -- General. Women -- Crimes against Women Sexual abuse victims Service, Compulsory non-military Reparations for historical injustices Feminism Collective memory Atrocities Arts -- Political aspects Comfort women Korea Japan Asia Genre/Form Personal narratives Form Electronic book LC no. 2018013324 ISBN 9780472123643 0472123645

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