매리 린 브락트의 『하얀 국화』에 나타난 공감적 상상력과 타자 윤리
Empathetic Imagination and Ethics of the Other in Mary Lynn Bracht’s White Chrysanthemum
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Mary Lynn Bracht’s White Chrysanthemum is her debut novel that focuses on the female victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery and national violence of the Jeju 4·3 incident. Bracht criticizes that most war narratives are male-oriented stories without women’s memories and voices about war. She strives to break the silence on the plight of Korean comfort women, bring back their memories, and fill the hole in the war narratives through two female protagonists in the novel. Therefore, this paper aims to examine how the lives of female victims in the novel are erased and forgotten from the relationship between war and women’s bodies, seek ways to restore their lives, and heal the wounds through face-to-face discourse. In addition, it analyzes the cause of self-centered violence that ignores the suffering others as a problem of empathy and attempts to postulate face-to-face conversations as a prerequisite for ethical empathy.
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Mary Lynn Bracht’s White Chrysanthemum is her debut novel that focuses on the female victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery and national violence of the Jeju 4·3 incident. Bracht criticizes that most war narratives are male-oriented stories without women’s memories and voices about war. She strives to break the silence on the plight of Korean comfort women, bring back their memories, and fill the hole in the war narratives through two female protagonists in the novel. Therefore, this paper aims to examine how the lives of female victims in the novel are erased and forgotten from the relationship between war and women’s bodies, seek ways to restore their lives, and heal the wounds through face-to-face discourse. In addition, it analyzes the cause of self-centered violence that ignores the suffering others as a problem of empathy and attempts to postulate face-to-face conversations as a prerequisite for ethical empathy.
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