![]() The most heinous acts of sexual violence, multiple gang rape, vaginal mutilation, venereal diseases and suicides are manifested in the testimonies and autobiographies of many former comfort women who after fifty years of silence finally found their voices to talk about their ordeal and the trauma they suffered. The history of sexual violence taken into consideration for the present study goes back to the period of Second World War, where hundreds of thousands of young girls, euphemistically called the ‘comfort women’ from different Japanese colonies of the time like Korea, China, Philippines, Indonesia, and Taiwan, were abducted and rounded up by Japanese Imperial Army to provide sexual services to the Japanese soldiers at the military camps before and during the war. The Corporality of Trauma and Testimony: Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman (This article is published under Volume 14, Number2, 2022) 14, Issue 2, April-June, 2022, Pages įirst published: J| Area: Trauma Studies | License: CC BY-NC 4.0 Email Id: Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, India. ![]() Indexing and Abstracting and Preservation of Digital ContentsġPhD candidate, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, India. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |