Transnational Memory of a Comfort Woman and Ethnic Identity in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman
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Transnational memory may result in the loss of essential meaning of the event itself in the mode of global conditions of cultural, historical and social differences. However, local memory in multiethnic American context can help American readers understand Asian Americans’ particular formation of ethnic or cultural identity based on their historical backdrops. From this perspective, this paper is to explore how Keller in Comfort Woman relocates the local memory of comfort woman at the transnational memory by replacing a comfort woman as a transnational mobile subject. It also discusses Keller’s politics of ethnic identity in this transnational mode by connecting such a local memory in Asia to an Asian American subject who is in dilemma of establishing ethnic identity. Keller’s Comfort Woman leads us to reconsider the problematic matters produced around the transnational memory, particularly in relation to a comfort woman. Moreover, she attempts to place the local memory of a comfort woman as important to understand what is defined to be Korean or Korean American in American society.
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Transnational memory may result in the loss of essential meaning of the event itself in the mode of global conditions of cultural, historical and social differences. However, local memory in multiethnic American context can help American readers understand Asian Americans’ particular formation of ethnic or cultural identity based on their historical backdrops. From this perspective, this paper is to explore how Keller in Comfort Woman relocates the local memory of comfort woman at the transnational memory by replacing a comfort woman as a transnational mobile subject. It also discusses Keller’s politics of ethnic identity in this transnational mode by connecting such a local memory in Asia to an Asian American subject who is in dilemma of establishing ethnic identity. Keller’s Comfort Woman leads us to reconsider the problematic matters produced around the transnational memory, particularly in relation to a comfort woman. Moreover, she attempts to place the local memory of a comfort woman as important to understand what is defined to be Korean or Korean American in American society.
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