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The Paintings of Korean Comfort Woman Duk-kyung Kang: Postcolonial and Decolonial Aesthetics for Colonized Bodies
- Feminist Studies
- Feminist Studies, Inc.
- Volume 43, Number 3, 2017
- pp. 571-609
- 10.1353/fem.2017.0033
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
This essay addresses the largely unrecognized art of a former comfort woman, Duk-kyung Kang (1929–1997). Comfort women were forced sexual slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. By analyzing how both postcolonial and decolonial aesthetics are embodied in her paintings, the potential of her art to challenge colonialism becomes pronounced.
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