The Deafening Silence of the Korean “Comfort Women
A Response Based on Lyotard and Irigaray
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7459658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Constance Youngwon Lee (0000-0002-2877-2390, The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Jonathan Crowe (0000-0002-2057-5771, The University of Queensland) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 339-356 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Law and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2052-9015 • E-ISSN: 2052-9023 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/als.2015.9 |
| OpenAlex | W2766642936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article reflects upon the continuing historical denialism concerning the Korean “comfort women” forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. We argue that the refusal of the Japanese government and others to squarely confront this wrong is made possible through the exploitation of a différend in Jean-François Lyotard’s sense of the term. The différend arises from a complex set of social, cultural, and legal sources, including patriarchal, colonial, and nationalistic constructions of the wrong and its victims. We seek to tentatively expose the nature of the différend by identifying these factors. We then sketch the beginnings of a possible response, drawing on Luce Irigaray’s strategy of emphasizing sexual difference and separation to pave the way for reciprocality between the sexes. The testimonies of the “comfort women” must be allowed to speak for themselves before a response can emerge based in other discourses
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Comfort women · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Silence · Sketch · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Psychology
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This Sex Which is Not One
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The Politics of Memory
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Japan's Comfort Women
Writing and Difference
National Bodies
"Conjuring "Comfort Women
History and Memory
The Origin and Development of the Military Sexual Slavery Problem in Imperial Japan
Memory of an Injustice
War and Apology
Japanese Reparations Policies and the “Comfort Women” Question
The Construction of Rationality in Australian Family Dispute Resolution
Comfort Women Speak
Korean 'Comfort Women
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |