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In this essay, I explore the difficulties of conceptualizing and implementing compensation for Korean comfort women by focusing on the problematic and anxious relationship between two concepts: women's "well-being/welfare" and "shame." I investigate what these comfort women are imagined to be entitled to, and why, and how mobilization around the issue of comfort women not only was defined by the nascent women's movement in Korea but also delimited the configurations of those movements. In this effort, I identify women's "worth," "subjecthood," and "citizenship" as the main concepts around which many debates and controversies revolve. By focusing on the "special" nature not only of sexual crime but also of suffering as a result of it, I argue that genuine compensation for the victims of structural and catastrophic violence can be sought only when 1) one steps outside the framework of modesty, dignity, virtue, and shame, and 2) one approaches compensation as a form of punishment that fits the crime, rather than as sympathy payment. Further, the "crime" committed against these women has to include not only the sexual violations perpetrated during their confinement in comfort stations but also the patriarchal, colonial, and militaristic devaluation and dehumanization inflicted on them before, during, and after that period that provides the context for the crime.

This article explores how we may empower women in the context of state/prison/oppositional movements when women are categorically excluded from political actions, mass mobilisation, struggles against and for state power. Via a close reading of prison literature produced in post-colonial, post-Korean-War Korea, I rethink the relationship between resistance and revolution, unencumbered by the gendered understanding of each term. I argue that we need rigorously to read the gendered workings of state power and its economic, political and cultural structures as well as oppositional movements, with a view to fundamentally reconceptualising and redefining where power resides and what it means to have power. Only then will we be able to imagine resistance and revolution that are not contradictory to each other.

The authors explore how books by African American & Asian American women are challenging the traditional boundaries of the public sphere. Their textual analysis focuses on four books: The Street by Ann Petry, Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks, Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata, & Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee. They investigate how minority literature depicts the boundaries of the public & private spheres, how those boundaries reinforce & overlap with class & gender, & how the nation-state became involved in dictating those boundaries. They analyze how the private & public spheres are portrayed in the four texts, how females negotiate their positions within & between the public & private spheres, & how literary texts locate & represent the political & economic powers that shape women's lives. 22 References. A. Funderburg

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Everything Diverges -- Introduction: Decency and Debasement -- Dreaming of Better Times: ''Repetition with a Difference'' and Community Policing in China -- Constructing Perry's ''Chinaman'' in the Context of Adorno and Benjamin -- Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s -- Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality -- Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism -- TheWorld Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Kōza Faction, theO¯ tsuka School, and the Uno School of Economics -- ''And TheyWould Start Again'': Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist Literature -- Spring, Temporality, and History in Li Dazhao -- Spring -- The Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution -- Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India -- Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse -- ''Who Am I?''—Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation -- Contributors -- Index