Author: Margaret D. Stetz, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Delaware

Abstract: »In Chapter 9, Margaret Stetz, a prominent feminist scholar in English literature, has taken an overview of the representations of “comfort women”—emphasizing that they were underage female victims of Japanese military sexual slavery—in photographs, commercial films, and novels in the West in the last twenty years. She has made extended comments on two films: Spirits’ Homecoming, written and directed by Cho Jung-rae in 2016 and Snowy Road, written by Yoo Bo-ra and directed by Lee Na-jeong in 2017. In particular, Spirits’ Homecoming seems to have been used in many college classes in the United States. Reading Stetz’s chapter before viewing the movie is likely to help students’ understanding of the movie.« (Source: Pyong Gap Min, Thomas R. Chung, and Sejung Sage Yim. »Introduction.« The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery. Edited by Pyong Gap Min et al. Berlin 2020: 14-15.)

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