1. Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller By Sheila Suk Olsen

2. http://sheilaolsen.weebly.com/ENGL1313 Presentation Outline Brief summarization of analytical aspectThesis assertedExplanation of content/backgroundSummarize/wrap-up/questions

3. Thesis  “I plan to show how Keller connected her protagonists: a former comfort woman and her daughter by providing them with a voice against the atrocities towards women traditionally apparent in Asian cultures and during the Pacific War. Their display of strength came from exercising their voice.” www.themegallery.comCompany Logo

4. http://sheilaolsen.weebly.com/ENGL1313 Background  :How are atrocities discovered?  Historical Account 1932 first comfort station* established by Japanese Imperial Army in China –1937 Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre 1931-1945 estimated over 200,000** women from various countries in Asia forced into sexual servitude (Novel begins in early 1940’s in Korea [Before the separation of N. and S., ending in early 1990’s in Hawaii, USA, this was near the time Keller wrote her first novel.)  Witness/Word of Mouth 1993 @ human rights symposium heard testimony from an actual comfort women

5. Issues

6. http://sheilaolsen.weebly.com/ENGL1313 Characters March 1919 Late 1930’s-Early 1940’s Early 1950 Grandmother College Student/Japan Colonizes Korea Arranged Marriage/Birth to Soon Hyo/Dies While Sleeping Deceased Mother as Soon Hyo Not Born Yet Youngest of 4 Daughters/Dowry into Servitude Spirit Deceased Mother as AkikoNot Born Yet Silenced by JIA/Comfort Woman/Escaped to US Missionaries Gives Birth/Marries US Missionary/Moves to USA (FL/HI) Daughter BeccahNot Born Yet Only Child Born in Korea/Raised in USA

7. http://sheilaolsen.weebly.com/ENGL1313 Relationship Cycle Death Birth Puberty Marriage Child Birth Mother- daughter Circle of Life

8. http://sheilaolsen.weebly.com/ENGL1313 Character Quotes Mother Daughter Grandmother “Marriage is not about love but about duty. About having sons. Abuot keeping the family name,” lectured by new in- laws.(CW, 180) Soon Hyo said of her mother, “My Mother never heard her name again.”(CW, 180 ) “When I became pregnant, I could not help worrying about what my baby would look like…Korean or Other. Me or not me. Now, as I look at my Bek-hap, my White Lily, I do not know how I could have doubted her perfection.” (CW, 154) “When I was a child, it did not occur to me that my mother had a life before me.” (CW, 26) “I wanted to help my mother, shield her from the children’s sharp- toothed barbs…and yet I didn’t want to. Because for the first time, as I…listened…(as they) using their tongues to mangle what she said into what they heard…and I was ashamed.” (CW, 88)

9. http://sheilaolsen.weebly.com/ENGL1313 Secomdary Sources Quotes Research professor at the University of Austria in the Department of American Studies. Interests are in Multi-Ethnic American Studies and Critical Multiculturalism. Graduate student from the University of Chicago with a major in History. Interest in History, Social Sciences, Gender Studies. Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkley Research and teaching critical and race studies, postcolonial theory. Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkley Research and teaching critical and race studies, postcolonial theory. Jodi Kim Aniko Varga Schultermandl

10. QUESTIONS?

11. Comfort Women in S. Korea Today