Hearts of Pine Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women"

ISBN-10: 019975957X

ISBN-13: 9780199759576

Edition: 2011

Authors: Joshua D. Pilzer

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In the wake of the wartime experience of sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War (1930-45), Korean survivors of this "comfort women" system lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. This book brings us into the lives of three survivors: Pak Duri, Mun Pilgi, and Bae Chunhui. Over the course of seven years, author Joshua Pilzer worked with these now-elderly women, living alongside of them, smoking with them, eating with them, singing and playing with them, documenting and trying to understand their worlds of song. Hearts of Pinefocuses on the selves and social lives that these three women cultivated through song. During four decades…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.12" wide x 0.12" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


A Note on Transliteration


About the Companion Website


Introduction


Beginnings


Pak Duri


Mun Pilgi


Bae Chunhui


Epilogue


Appendix: Pak Duri's Testimony


Notes


Bibliography


Discography


Index