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War, Women, and Silence: Personal Review of Nora Okja Keller’s “Comfort Woman”
She is like the wild child raised by tigers, I heard them say to each other. Physically human but able to speak only in the language of animals. They were kind and praised me when I responded to simple commands they issued in Japanese: sit, eat, sleep. Had they asked, I would also have responded to “close mouth” and “open legs”. At the camps where the Japanese called us Jungun Ianfu, military comfort women, we were taught only whatever was necessary to service the soldiers. Other than that, we were not expected to understand and were forbidden to speak any language at all. Akiko, Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman, Chapter 2.
On August 14, 1991, Kim Hak-sun, a former Korean comfort woman, broke her silence for the first time during a press conference, recounting her ordeal as a survivor of the Japanese military sexual slavery system. During her speech, she expressed deep frustration over the injustice s
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Comfort WomanNora Okja Keller
Comfort Woman is Nora Okja Keller's debut into full-length literature. Following her award winning short story "Mother-Tongue," Comfort Woman stays true to Keller's mission to speak the unspeakable concerning the plight of Japanese women...
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Nora Okja Keller
born December 22, 1965, Seoul, Korea
father Robert Cobb, a German computer engineer
mother Tae Im Ku, a jack of all trades
emigrated to the US at age 3
grew up in Hawai'i
University of Hawai'i, BA
University of California Santa Cruz, MA
University of California Santa Cruz, PhD, American Literature
married James Keller, 1990
daughter Tae, born 1994
daughter Sunhi, born 2000
lives in Waipuhu, Hawai'i
Awards: Pushcart Prize, 1995, for "Mother Tongue," from Comfort Woman; American Book Award, 1998, and Cades Award, 1999, both for Comfort Woman.
Comfort Woman, New York : Viking, 1997
Fox girl, New York : Viking, 2002
Yobo : Korean American writing in Hawai'i, edited by Nora Okja Keller, Honolulu, HI : Bamboo Ridge Press, 2003
Poets and Writers follow-up
Daria Ng interview at coloredgirls.com
Jocelyn Lieu interview at coloredgirls.com
"Sweet smile of success," Honolulu Star Bulletin, April 1, 1997
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