by Bryan Farrell | January 14, 2010, 3:42 pm
Every Wednesday since 1992, a group of South Korean former World War II sex slaves and their supporters gather outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul to demand compensation and an official apology from Japan, which ran a system of military brothels before its surrender in 1945. At yesterday’s gathering, many people carried signs with the number 900, signifying the landmark number of protests these so-called “comfort women” and their supporters have staged over the last 17 years.
Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman weaves the accounts of a comfort woman and the diasporic struggles of Asian women with supernatural elements so, so beautifully.
Definitely one of the best books to be assigned to read in university.
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by Bryan Farrell | January 14, 2010, 3:42 pm
Every Wednesday since 1992, a group of South Korean former World War II sex slaves and their supporters gather outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul to demand compensation and an official apology from Japan, which ran a system of military brothels before its surrender in 1945. At yesterday’s gathering, many people carried signs with the number 900, signifying the landmark number of protests these so-called “comfort women” and their supporters have staged over the last 17 years.
Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman weaves the accounts of a comfort woman and the diasporic struggles of Asian women with supernatural elements so, so beautifully.
Definitely one of the best books to be assigned to read in university.
(via str8nochaser)
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reminds me of when i visited the house of sharing, where the former comfort women, called halmonis, live. such a surreal...
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