Son, Elizabeth
Embodied Reckonings: :
- ISBN 13:
- 9780472037100
- author:
- Son, Elizabeth
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Gender Studies
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Embodied Reckonings: Comfort Women, Performance, and Transpacific Redress by Elizabeth Son explores the intersection of politics, culture, and performance in the context of the "comfort women" issue. In the 1990s, these women and their supporters initiated various performances, including protests, tribunals, theater, and memorial-building projects, to demand justice for those affected by state-sponsored violence. This book provides a critical framework for understanding how actions designed to bring about redress can be reimagined through cultural and social possibilities. Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic research, Son argues that performance plays a central role in the redress of this historical trauma. By examining the actions of ordinary people, the book offers new ways of thinking about legal and political understandings of redress. Through its transnational, feminist analysis, Embodied Reckonings sheds light on the complex relationships between culture, politics, and performance in the context of human rights and social justice.
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