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The Comfort Women in Northern East Asia As Represented by Plays, Rallies, and Exhibits

Wu, Yi-Ping
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu156409381300001

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Theatre.
This dissertation examines why and how the wartime experiences of the comfort women were used by politicians and playwrights in postwar years to buttress the nationalist agendas of the victimized nations, namely China, Taiwan, and Korea. The dissertation shows how the personal stories of the victimized women became public memories, public speeches and theatrical performances when they were introduced to the national narratives in China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. The wartime ideology (and its rhetoric), which helped the Japanese to justify why they exploited the bodies of these women is contrasted to the peacetime ideology (and is rhetoric) that helped the Chinese, Taiwanese, and Koreans to transfer the stigma from the victims to the perpetrators and to demand reparations in postwar years. The focus of this dissertation project is on the process by which national politics and gender politics in the postwar era re-humanized these women and turned their private stories into a public discourse through theatrical performances, political rallies, and museum exhibits.
Stratos Constantinidis (Advisor)
Jennifer Suchland (Committee Member)
Lynn Itagaki (Committee Member)
Beth Kattelman (Committee Member)
144 p.
Theater Studies; Womens Studies

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  • Wu, Y.-P. (2019). The Comfort Women in Northern East Asia As Represented by Plays, Rallies, and Exhibits [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu156409381300001

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wu, Yi-Ping. The Comfort Women in Northern East Asia As Represented by Plays, Rallies, and Exhibits . 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu156409381300001.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wu, Yi-Ping. "The Comfort Women in Northern East Asia As Represented by Plays, Rallies, and Exhibits ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu156409381300001

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