- Title
- A More Miserable Life than Living in the Jungle: A Japanese ‘Comfort Woman’ Story
- Creator
- Tsukamoto, Sachiyo
- Relation
- Gender and History Vol. -, Issue November 2021, p. 1-18
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12583
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- This article analyses the recollection of a Japanese ‘comfort women’ survivor published in 1975. By applying the analytical concept of gender and trauma, this study draws on the ‘politics of integrity’ theorised by Aurora Levins Morales (1998) as well as the theory of ‘coherence of the self’ proposed by Charlotte Linde (1993). The social, political and psychological analysis of her life story reveals the complexity of the politics of integrity in telling a story of trauma. It concludes how strongly her silent voice of trauma required societal acknowledgement of her sense of self to regain human integrity and dignity.
- Subject
- Japanese; 'comfort woman'; life story; human integrity and dignity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1459722
- Identifier
- uon:45756
- Identifier
- ISSN:0953-5233
- Rights
- © 2021 The Authors. Gender & History published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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