See Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).Ĭara Cilano and Elizabeth DeLoughrey, “Against Authenticity: Global Knowledges and Postcolonial Ecocriticism,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 14.1 (2007), 75. Silvia Schultermandl “Writing Rape, Trauma, and Transnationality onto the Female Body: Matrilineal Em-body-ment in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman,” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 7.2 (2007), 71–100.
Madsen “Nora Okja Keller: Telling Trauma in the Transnational Military (Sex)industrial Complex,” Interactions 15.2 (2006), 75–84 Young-Oak Lee, “Nora Okja Keller and the Silenced Woman: An Interview,” MELUS 28.4 (2003), 158. Hereafter cited parenthetically within the text. Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman (New York: Penguin, 1997), 22. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.
And the female will always respond to him.” 1 Keywords The gynecologist justifies the oppression, commodification, and sexual exploitation of women by suggesting that men, at the top of the evolutionary ladder, hold dominion over women who, he suggests, are “almost like animals.” He thus concludes in a self-gratifying way: “Luckily for the species, Nature ensures that there is one dominant male to keep the others at bay and the female under control. Performing a mandatory abortion on a teenage woman who is forced into sexual servitude during World War II, a Japanese gynecologist in the military camp in Nora Okja Keller’s novel Comfort Woman (1997) pontificates about “evolutionary differences between the races, biological quirks that made the women of one race so pure and the women of another so promiscuous.” Assuming the position of a social Darwinist, he refers to these seemingly natural differences to make sense of the possible causes for Korean women to enter sexual labor.
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