A More Miserable Life than Living in the Jungle: A Japanese ‘Comfort Woman’ Story

Title: A More Miserable Life than Living in the Jungle: A Japanese ‘Comfort Woman’ Story
Creator: Tsukamoto, Sachiyo
Relation: Gender and History Vol. -, Issue November 2021, p. 1-18
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12583
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: This article analyses the recollection of a Japanese ‘comfort women’ survivor published in 1975. By applying the analytical concept of gender and trauma, this study draws on the ‘politics of integrity’ theorised by Aurora Levins Morales (1998) as well as the theory of ‘coherence of the self’ proposed by Charlotte Linde (1993). The social, political and psychological analysis of her life story reveals the complexity of the politics of integrity in telling a story of trauma. It concludes how strongly her silent voice of trauma required societal acknowledgement of her sense of self to regain human integrity and dignity.
Subject: Japanese; 'comfort woman'; life story; human integrity and dignity
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1459722
Identifier: uon:45756
Identifier: ISSN:0953-5233
Rights: x
Language: eng
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