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

Abstracts:
- »Margaret Stetz’s chapter considers new ways and genres to retell the story of Japan’s military sexual enslavement. She uses graphic memoirs, dystopian futurist/science fiction, and poetry to demonstrate how the historical truth about comfort women may be disseminated through these mediums. As “time has only compounded the difficulty of resolving the so-called comfort women issues within a political or legal framework,” she argues that it may matter more to consider what happens in the “informal international court of public opinion” through literature.«. (Source: Ko, Ñusta C. »New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women.« New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women: Comfort Women and What Remains. Edited by Ñusta Carranza Ko. Singapore 2023: 19)

- »With the remaining survivors of the WWII-era “comfort system” aging and increasingly unable to tell their own stories, how can their histories and campaigns for justice be kept alive and remain urgent, especially for younger audiences of English speakers, such as university students? Asian and American women writers, in particular, have been using new ways of reaching those readers. They have turned to genres such as futuristic speculative fiction, illustrated/graphic narratives, and experimental forms of poetry to do so. This essay surveys a small sampling of texts that are currently being incorporated successfully into classroom teaching. It ends by suggesting that instructors further a sense of engagement by encouraging students to produce creative works of their own, while modeling how to do that, and includes as examples three poems by the author.« (Source: SpringerLink)

Wikipedia: History of Asia: History of Japan / Shōwa era | History of Asia: History of Korea / Korea under Japanese rule | Literature: English literature | Literature: Works about comfort women | Prostitution: Forced prostitution / Comfort women | Sex and the law: Wartime sexual violence / Wartime sexual violence in World War II | War: Pacific War / Japanese war crimes