I'll be like Princess Pari, and I'll rescue you: Beccah's Development into a Postcolonial Female Writing Subject in Comfort Woman
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This essay discusses Beccah's development into a postcolonial female writing subject represented in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, to which critics have hitherto less paid their critical attention. Based on major theories concerning the Bildungsroman and the postcolonial female Bildungsroman, the essay begins its discussion by defining the novel as a postcolonial female Bildungsroman. The essay then investigates why her mother's shamanism, which is the symbol of her postcolonial female legacy, functions as Bildung for Beccah's development. Building on this investigation, the essay discusses not only what Beccah learns from Bildung from her mother's postcolonial female shamanism but also how her development is differentiated from her mother's shamanism. The later part of this essay dedicates itself to analyzing Beccah's narrational strategies implied from formal and thematic characteristics of her narrative. It can be implied from this analysis that her authorship of the novel is her own way of realizing justice for her mother and other Korean comfort women. The ultimate purpose of this essay is to prove that Beccah's writing Comfort Woman is itself not only the evidence of her development but also one example of a mature and responsible attitude as a writing subject.
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This essay discusses Beccah's development into a postcolonial female writing subject represented in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, to which critics have hitherto less paid their critical attention. Based on major theories concerning the Bildungsroman and the postcolonial female Bildungsroman, the essay begins its discussion by defining the novel as a postcolonial female Bildungsroman. The essay then investigates why her mother's shamanism, which is the symbol of her postcolonial female legacy, functions as Bildung for Beccah's development. Building on this investigation, the essay discusses not only what Beccah learns from Bildung from her mother's postcolonial female shamanism but also how her development is differentiated from her mother's shamanism. The later part of this essay dedicates itself to analyzing Beccah's narrational strategies implied from formal and thematic characteristics of her narrative. It can be implied from this analysis that her authorship of the novel is her own way of realizing justice for her mother and other Korean comfort women. The ultimate purpose of this essay is to prove that Beccah's writing Comfort Woman is itself not only the evidence of her development but also one example of a mature and responsible attitude as a writing subject.
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