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Between Life and Death The Spectral Other and the Ethics of Mourning in Nora Okja Keller s Comfort Woman Chiou-rung Deng* Abstract This paper analyzes Nora Okja Keller s novel, Comfort Woman, which focuses on the dead and the survivors of the colonial and sexual violence in Korea during World War II, by applying Jacques Derrida s discussions on the act of mourning and the alterity of the dead. In Comfort Woman, the narrative alternates between the ex-comfort woman, Akiko, and her daughter, Beccah. After the traumatic experience of sexual violence as a comfort woman, Akiko has been haunted by the dead and becomes a shaman, reckoning with death and responding to the demands of the dead. Likewise, after her death, Akiko s daughter Beccah learns, through Akiko s voice recorded in a tape, to mourn for Akiko s death and is called to fulfill her responsibility to her dead mother. While mourning is a necessary responsibility, how to understand and respond to the infinite alterity of the dead becomes a duty facing the survivors, and according to Derrida, it is also a question of hospitality without reserve to harbor the dead. However, the text of Comfort Woman also indicates an alternative picture of the ghost, which is not merely an unknown other but also an agent, with a different trajectory, which the work of mourning follows; that is, in the act of mourning, my conscious I should yield to the dead, the other, instead of keeping the dead alive within my memory. Keywords: Comfort Woman, the dead, ghosts, Derrida, mourning * Assistant Professor, Department of English, Tamkang University. 1 3 5

Comfort Woman 1997 Nora Okja Keller Author 5 Author 6 2 Avery F. Gordon 2 Lee 431 Kun Jong Lee Lee 432 1 3 6

42 Atef Laouyene gothic writing 127-28 Sharon Patricia Holland 29-30 Michael Taussig threshold Holland 4 alterity Mourning and Melancholy 244-45 1 3 7

Judith Butler The Ego and the Id letting the object go 134 introjection interiorization of remembrance Sovereignties 160 3 4 Deborah L. Madsen secondary witness 3 incorporation) Fors 69-71 Royle 139 4 Schultermandl Vanrheen -en 1 3 8

88-89 normalized 90-91 shame 84 mimesis 95 Sungran Cho 75 79 M/ other M/other Kun Jong Lee shaman 432, 444 1 3 9

5 impossible mourning irreplaceability singularity 5 David J. Kim 70 80 728 1 4 0

The Work of Mourning, 2001 80 reckoning with death, with the dead beyond reckoning Brault and Naas 2, 30 6 Memoires for Paul de Man, 1986 Roland Barthes Work 36 mimetism 38 Brault and Naas 9 Memoires 21 6 Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas To Reckon with the Dead reckon 2-3 1 4 1

9 Elisabeth Roudinesco Derrida and Roudinesco 159-60 beyond me Brault and Naas 11 infinite alterity Memoires 6 1 4 2

finitude 29 34 mimetic interiorization 34 37 metonymy allegorical metonymy trace 38 The Gift of Death respond responsibility 33 1 4 3

41 Emmanuel Levinas mortal 7 entrusted responsibility Work 204 Brault and Naas 25 adieu a-dieu Work 209 adieu a-dieu Gift 47 the unknown Work 205 hospitality Work 205 hospitality without reserve 7 Adieu 1975-1976 La mort et le temps Death and time Work 203n4 1 4 4

Spectres 65 8 Akiko Beccah trance shaman 9 8 Spectres of Marx messianic opening 65 Nicolas Royle place displacement irreplaceable 161 9 Beccah Rebeccah 1 4 5

1 10 2 5 Bek-hap 116 10 1 4 6

5 M/Other hybridity Kathleen Brogan 131 13 the Red Disaster 75 the Birth Grandmother 1 4 7

78 80 81 85 85 86 1 4 8

11 26 11 46 1 4 9

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19 Soon Hyo 12 40 40 Induk 40 40 Induk Induk Induk 41 20-21 40 12 1 5 1

Soon Hyo 41 40 41 143 Memoires 49 signification 16 1 5 2

21 35-36 36 1 5 3

38 80 13 13 1 5 4

444 92 113 144-45 abjection Manshin Ahjima 38 56 1 5 5

146 14 14 haewŏn chinhon kut Kim 728 2004 742 1 5 6

Memoires 34 59 59 48 1 5 7

absence presence 15 15 possession 1 5 8

Soon Hyo 1919 3 175 1919 3 1 178 1 5 9

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182 16 Reno 16 Laurel Kendall Brogan 157 1 6 1

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193-94 197 transcribe 1 6 3

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