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Call Number:
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KOREA AUTOBIO GEN2019 |
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Title:
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Grass |
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Personal name:
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Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk (author) and Hong, Janet (translator) |
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015082 |
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2023-09-08 16:49:56 |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element:
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Autobiographical |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9781770463622 |
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc.:
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Drawn and Quarterly |
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Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
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2019 |
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softcover, paperback, black and white interior |
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Summary, etc. note:
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This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s lives
Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War―a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history.
Beginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child’s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee’s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee’s memories.
The cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace. |
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Korea, Korean, comfort women, war, antiwar, women, sexual slavery, sexual assault, trauma, rape, mature, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Imperial Army, Japanese occupation, Asian history, 20th century, 20th century Asian history, interviews, mental health, coming of age, childhood, heavy brushwork, wartime suffering, BIPOC, people of colour, Asian, memoir, biography, own voices |
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Source of acquisition:
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Rotem Diamant |
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Method of acquisition:
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Donation |
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Date of acquisition:
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October, 2019 |
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../pictures/Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim.jpg |
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34.95 |
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