‘증언 전후’ 일본군‘위안부’ 대중서사 연구 = A Study on the Popular Narrative of Japanese Military “Comfort Women” Before and After the Testimonies

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to examine the public manifestation of the popular fictions about Japanese military “comfort women” in the period before and after Kim Hak-soon's testimony, which may also identify how the narrative of the Japanese military comfort women is constructed in conjunction with the times. The narrative of the Japanese military comfort women has been once presented as “interesting,” but also as a narrative of “sense of justice” and “mission” for the “national people,” sometimes combined with sexualized commercialization.
It is also explored how the public's acceptance or exclusion of Japanese military “comfort women” shaped their images. The popular narratives regarding the Japanese military “comfort women” produced in the 1980s and 1990s demonstrated how certain narratives were repeatedly expandingly reproduced. Through an examination of the 'prefaces' of the authors who produced the narrative of the Japanese military ‘comfort women’, it is traced how their perceptions on the issue of the Japanese military comfort women are revealed in their works, and how the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ are being reconstructed as 'public' materials in Korean society.