Rereading Identity, Suffering, and Love in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman (1997)
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This paper interprets Nora Okja Keller’s <Comfort Women> (1997) in terms of identity, suffering, and love. Keller’s Comfort Woman retells the historical context of Korean comfort women in WWⅡ through the relationship between Soon Hyo and Beccah. Beccah discovers the past of her mother, who became a comfort woman. After this discovery, Beccah finds her identity and reconciles with her mother. The novel discusses colonialism, imperialism, race, gender, Asian diaspora, and spirituality. These aspects have brought attention to many scholars to interpret the identity and the relationship between Soon Hyo and Beccah in the context of shamanism. In that vein, I analyze the identity and suffering manifested in the novel and further argue that Soon Hyo becomes a wounded healer through her suffering by using C. G. Jung’s notion of the wounded healer and also say that Soon Hyo and Beccah’s love for justice forms a shaman narrative of transformation and reconciliation.
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This paper interprets Nora Okja Keller’s <Comfort Women> (1997) in terms of identity, suffering, and love. Keller’s Comfort Woman retells the historical context of Korean comfort women in WWⅡ through the relationship between Soon Hyo and Beccah. Beccah discovers the past of her mother, who became a comfort woman. After this discovery, Beccah finds her identity and reconciles with her mother. The novel discusses colonialism, imperialism, race, gender, Asian diaspora, and spirituality. These aspects have brought attention to many scholars to interpret the identity and the relationship between Soon Hyo and Beccah in the context of shamanism. In that vein, I analyze the identity and suffering manifested in the novel and further argue that Soon Hyo becomes a wounded healer through her suffering by using C. G. Jung’s notion of the wounded healer and also say that Soon Hyo and Beccah’s love for justice forms a shaman narrative of transformation and reconciliation.
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