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Nora Okja Keller (born 22 December 1966, in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean American author. Her 1997 breakthrough work of fiction, Comfort Woman, and her second book (2002), Fox Girl, focus on multigenerational trauma resulting from Korean women's experiences as sex slaves, euphemistically called comfort women, for Japanese and American troops during World War II and the ongoing Korean War.
Robbay is revealed as a vegetarian and a weightlifter. The Director walks The Girl through the improvised set - a row of stones. He caresses The Girl, praises her beauty and pontificates on his own artistry and his vision for a “tiny eight-minute poem.”The Director repeatedly warned The Girl “not to resist” during the shooting. [3]
Walterina Markova is a devout Catholic and elderly transvestite who lives at the Home for the Golden Gays and trains Japan-bound entertainers for a living. After watching a report by Loren Legarda on comfort women during World War II, Markova suffers an emotional breakdown and nightmares about her wartime experience.
After Sarah gets kicked out of the boarding house for drunkenness, Thomas’ mother invites the girl to live with them despite her son's objections. After various conflicts, during which Sarah seems to act flirtatiously toward him, Thomas notices that his handgun is missing.
A Girl's Story" is a short story within Toni Cade Bambara's short story collection, The Seabirds are Still Alive. This collection was originally published in 1977 by Random House . Bambara writes about strong female girls in this particular collection because "in her vision, in her politics, little girls matter". [ 1 ]
Amelia rescues the girl before she has her baby, but fails to save Clara from state-mandated electric shock treatments that shatter her health and her sanity. The novel ends with the climactic conjunction of three dramatic events: a mass demonstration demanding "Milk and Iron Pills for Clara," Clara's death scene, and the birth of the girl's baby.
María Rosa Luna Henson or "Lola Rosa" ("Grandma Rosa") (December 5, 1927 – August 18, 1997) was the first Filipina who made public in 1992 her story as a comfort woman (military sex slave) for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War.
There is much emphasis placed on the gruesome sewing-together of Patchwork Girl and the functioning of her borrowed body. The structure and the content of the text closely reflect one another because of the piecing-together of Patchwork Girl's physical self features in the narrative as well as the interactive element of the hypertext.