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Femininity on Display : Comfort Group in Manchukuo during the Wartime Period and Gender Politics Ⅱ

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2019, (28), pp.251~282
  • DOI : 10.22888/mcsa..28.201910.251
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : September 29, 2019
  • Accepted : October 25, 2019
  • Published : October 31, 2019

Lee, Jin-A 1

1동아대학교 석당학술원

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ABSTRACT

This article examines aspects of the road tour of the comfort group in Manchukuo during the wartime period from the perspective of gender politics. At that time, the comfort group actively conducted consolation performances in which they visited pioneer warriors of Manchukuo through the signifier of femininity and Joseon nature. This signifier process was one in which a Korean man in Manchukuo in the 1940s to serve as symbolically representative of dominant masculinity, a pioneering warrior with cultural power, while a female served as the stereotyped image of his other. The Manchurian comfort group created a comfort culture represented with females such as ‘Sister, Female group, Girls' Theater Company, and Gisaeng,’ through which the female body was visualized through music and dance. Culture elite Lee Chul’s Chosun musical troupe had a particularly significant influence on the Manchurian comfort group’s way of life, leading to a focus on and targeting Korean women audiences of Manchukuo. The comfort group thus became a moving cultural device. Occasionally, in space surrounding the Manchurian comfort group, female entertainers of Chosun revealed gender performances as subjects who newly own femininity, merely the entertaining objects as stereotyped others. These performers displayed ambivalence and contradiction between stereotyped expectations notions of how bodies match voices, broadening how symbolism and reality matter in their encouraging form of entertainment. Key words: Manchukuo, comfort group, Femininity, Lee Chul, Chosun musical troupe, encouraging entertainment, Gender performance, Cultural Power

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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