Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress

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Embodied Reckonings examines the political and cultural aspects of up to date 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—within the years before and all over World War II. Long silent, within the early 1990s these women and their supporters initiated varied performance practices—protests, tribunals, theater, and memorial-building projects—to demand justice for those suffering from state-sponsored acts of violence. The book provides a essential 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.

In accordance with 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 bizarre people, thus offering ways of reconceptualizing legal and political understandings of redress that have a tendency to pay attention to institutionalized sorts of state-based remediation.

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