THE IMAGE OF THE “COMFORT WOMAN”. A FICTIONAL DEPICTION IN THE KOREAN AMERICAN NOVEL AND THE KOREAN GRAPHIC NOVEL
THE IMAGE OF THE “COMFORT WOMAN”. A FICTIONAL DEPICTION IN THE KOREAN AMERICAN NOVEL AND THE KOREAN GRAPHIC NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: During the entirety of the occupation of Korea by Japan, the colonized suffered deeply, after 1937 things became worse, as the Japanese “recruited” Korean girls and women for the so-called comfort stations where they had to serve as prostitutes for the Japanese soldiers and officers. As recently more and more novels depict this topic, the current research will focus on two important works that describe the Korean “comfort women”. On one side, we will emphasize the brutality and violence from the novel White Chrysanthemum that presents, in great detail, the experience of Hana as a “comfort woman”, while the graphic novel Grass will underline the censored but accurate representation of the same experience, as it is intended for a younger generation.

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