Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the Comfort Women - Ako Inuzuka

Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the Comfort Women

The Collective Memory of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
258 Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9837-8 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the 'Comfort Women: The Collective Memory of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military examines the collective memory of sexual slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military in Japan over the past seventy-five years. Euphemistically known as the "comfort women," tens of thousands of young females were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers during the Asia-Pacific War. The majority of these women are believed to have been deceitfully or forcibly taken from Korea, a former Japanese colony. The ways in which sexual slavery has been remembered in Japan lies at the root of a long-standing diplomatic conflict between Japan and South Korea and has fueled a "memory war" among Japanese scholars and activists. The author argues that Korean "comfort women" have been exoticized in the collective memory similarly to "Oriental" women's presentations by Western Orientalists. This book is a comprehensive analysis of the memory of sexual slavery in Japan, examining various artifacts produced since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, including nonfiction books, novels, newspaper articles, popular and documentary films, and a commemorative museum. It provides novel insights into a decade old international and domestic controversy.

Ako Inuzuka is associate professor of communication at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Introduction: Collective Memories of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military

Chapter 2 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan from 1945 to the 1960s: Romantic Stories of Forbidden Love

Chapter 3 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan from the 1970s to 1990: Japanese War Guilt, Victims, and Romanticized Memories

Chapter 4 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery from 1991 to 2015: Nationalist Memories

Chapter 5 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery from 1991 to 2015: Progressive Memories

Chapter 6 – The Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan from 2015 to the Present: The 2015 Bilateral Agreement and ‘Comfort Women’ Statues

Chapter 7 – Reflections on Memories of Sexual Slavery in Japan and South Korea

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 228 mm
Gewicht 572 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4985-9837-4 / 1498598374
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-9837-8 / 9781498598378
Zustand Neuware
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