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Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller

Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller. By Sheila Suk Olsen. Presentation Outline. Brief summarization of analytical aspect. Explanation of content/background. Summarize/wrap-up/questions. Thesis asserted. Thesis.

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Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller

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  1. Comfort Womanby Nora Okja Keller By Sheila Suk Olsen

  2. Presentation Outline Brief summarization of analytical aspect Explanation of content/background Summarize/wrap-up/questions Thesis asserted ENGL1313

  3. Thesis • “I plan to show how Keller connected her protagonists: a former comfort woman and her daughter by providing them with a voice against the atrocities towards women traditionally apparent in Asian cultures and during the Pacific War. Their display of strength came from exercising their voice.” Company Logo

  4. Background • :How are atrocities discovered? • Historical Account • 1932 first comfort station* established by Japanese Imperial Army in China • 1937 Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre • 1931-1945 estimated over 200,000** women from various countries in Asia forced into sexual servitude (Novel begins in early 1940’s in Korea [Before the separation of N. and S., ending in early 1990’s in Hawaii, USA, this was near the time Keller wrote her first novel.) • Witness/Word of Mouth • 1993 @ human rights symposium heard testimony from an actual comfort women ENGL1313

  5. Issues

  6. Characters ENGL1313

  7. Relationship Cycle Circle of Life Puberty Birth Mother-daughter Death Marriage Child Birth ENGL1313

  8. Character Quotes Grandmother “Marriage is not about love but about duty. About having sons. Abuot keeping the family name,” lectured by new in-laws.(CW, 180) Soon Hyo said of her mother, “My Mother never heard her name again.”(CW, 180) Daughter “When I was a child, it did not occur to me that my mother had a life before me.” (CW, 26) “I wanted to help my mother, shield her from the children’s sharp-toothed barbs…and yet I didn’t want to. Because for the first time, as I…listened…(as they) using their tongues to mangle what she said into what they heard…and I was ashamed.” (CW, 88) Mother “When I became pregnant, I could not help worrying about what my baby would look like…Korean or Other. Me or not me. Now, as I look at my Bek-hap, my White Lily, I do not know how I could have doubted her perfection.” (CW, 154) ENGL1313

  9. Secomdary Sources Quotes Jodi Kim AnikoVarga Schultermandl Research professor at the University of Austria in the Department of American Studies. Interests are in Multi-Ethnic American Studies and Critical Multiculturalism. Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkley Research and teaching critical and race studies, postcolonial theory. Graduate student from the University of Chicago with a major in History. Interest in History, Social Sciences, Gender Studies. ENGL1313

  10. Thank You ! QUESTIONS?

  11. Comfort Women in S. Korea Today

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