“comfort women,” performance, and transpacific redress
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Son, Elizabeth W.
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- WER 38 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- troostmeisjes, prostitutie, seksueel geweld, tweede wereldoorlog, acties, Nederlands-Indië, 20e eeuw, 1940-1949, 1990-1999
- Description
- This publication examines the political and cultural aspects of contemporary performances of the ‘comfort women’ - mostly Korean - in the years before and during World War II. 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. Based on archival and ethnographic research.