From Absence to Revelation : Identity and Historical Formation on Taiwanese Comfort Women in Documentaries of “ A Secret Buried for 50 years ”and “ Song of the Reed ”

• Main Authors: Lin Yun Jheng, 林昀錚
• Other Authors: 汪俊彥
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zs54a2

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 台灣文學與跨國文化研究所 === 107 === I chose these two documentaries: "The Secret of Buried 50 Years" and "The Song of Reed" as research materials, because the two films were paid by the Taipei Women''s Rescue Foundation. I wonder why comfort women did not appear in public places until the 1990s. Therefore, I want to find out why the comfort women have disappeared in the past 50 years and why they appeared in the 1990s.I continue with the above questions, and I would like to know how the society understands the personal and historical issues of comfort women after the 1990s. Chaoter2：I deal with the reasons and process of how the comfort women were created in the Second World War.I will discuss the identity of the comfort women from personal experience and national orders. Chapter3: I want to discuss the reasons why comfort women have disappeared in the past 50 years and they have appeared in society. I use the documentary " A Secret Buried for 50 years " to understand the comfort woman’s image after the 1990s and compare the different definitions of the two periods (World War II/1990s). Chapter4：After seventeen years, the second comfort women documentary ‘’The Song of Reed’’ show the comfort women’s later years, including the process of reconciliation with their live. I compare documentaries and social commentary, thinking that personal reconciliation can promote reconciliation among nations. In short, I find the comfort women’s Identity and Historical Formation have different discussions at different times, which also deeply affects the discussion in our contemporary society. This problem has not been handled well in the society, so comfort women’s history has not been resolved until now. Therefore, I want to use this paper to find out the possibility of comfort women in the future.