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Comics |
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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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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, women, sexual abuse, war, trauma, mature, Japan, Japanese, colonialism, Asian, history, 1900s, interview, mental health, coming of age, childhood, BIPOC, people of colour, memoir, 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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