Stories that Make History : : The Experience and Memories of the Japanese Military ›Comfort Girls-Women‹ /

Stories that Make History : : The Experience and Memories of the Japanese Military ›Comfort Girls-Women‹ / / The Research Team of the War, Women's Human Rights Center.

What would it be like if your existence was erased for half a century? This is the reality for the Korean comfort girls-women whose lives had been erased since the time of the expansion of comfort stations by the Japanese military in 1937. This book is an effort to bring these women back to life and...

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Funder:
Korean Council for the Women Drafted
:
Women’s Human Rights Center
Korean Council for the Women Drafted
TeilnehmendeR:
Son, Angella
HerausgeberIn:
Research Team of the War, ,
Women's Human Rights Center, ,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes
Physical Description:1 online resource (XXX, 303 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Translator's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Stories of the Survivors of the Japanese Military Comfort Girls-Women: The Making of the Memories and Meaning
  • Explanatory Notes
  • Glossary
  • "I Never Dreamt, Not in My Wildest Dreams, That So Many Soldiers Would Come to Me Like That": Gong Jeom-yeop
  • "You Japs, Without Your War, Why Would We Have Gone There?": Kim Hwa-ja (Pseudonym)
  • "It Is Like a Dream That I Survived. But an Utterly Terrifying Nightmare of a Dream": Chung Seo-un
  • "When I Try to Speak of What Is Buried in My Heart, It Feels Like My Heart Is Bursting": Kang Il-chul
  • "How Can I Avenge Myself?": Seok Soon-hee (pseudonym), Ahn Jeom-soon (real name)
  • "That History, At First, I Was Ashamed About It, So I Was Not Able to Talk Very Clearly": Lee Ok-seon
  • "Never, Ever Forget": Lim Jeong-ja
  • "Do Not Ask Me About My Past Life. It Pains My Heart": Roh Chung-ja
  • "You Come and Give Us Compensation and Beg Us for Forgiveness": Jang Jeom-dol
  • "To Whom Shall I Say This? Does Anyone in Heaven or on Earth Know What I Went Through?": Kim Bong-yi (pseudonym), Choi Seon-soon (real name)
  • "There Was Not a Thing I Could Do that I Wanted": Kim Soon-ak
  • "It Passed Along With the Blow of Wind and Waves of Water, Time Has": Gil Won-ok
  • The Story of Failed Interviews: The Silence of Cho Yi Seon, the Secret of Kim Dduk Bbal: Jungae Park
  • Some Works on Comfort Girls-Women

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