The Paintings of Korean Comfort Woman Duk-kyung Kang: Postcolonial and Decolonial Aesthetics for Colonized Bodies

2017/01/01 by Hyunji Kwon · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Japanese History and Culture #Asian Culture and Media Studies #Chinese history and philosophy

paper · doi:10.1353/fem.2017.0033

openalex publication_date 2017/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06

Abstract

This essay addresses the largely unrecognized art of a former comfort woman, Duk-kyung Kang (1929–1997). Comfort women were forced sexual slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. By analyzing how both postcolonial and decolonial aesthetics are embodied in her paintings, the potential of her art to challenge colonialism becomes pronounced.

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