Testimonianze, contromemoria e attivismo femminista: La rielaborazione del trauma nei contesti postbellici asiatici e balcanici (1991–2015)
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https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2785-3233/25810Keywords:
survivor testimonies, comfort women, transnational feminism, war rape, women’s tribunalAbstract
This paper investigates how the emergence of survivor testimonies from sexual violence during the Yugoslav wars and the Japanese comfort stations system in World War II catalyzed the formation of a vibrant transnational feminist and women’s activism network starting in the 1990s. These grassroots movements fostered a collective reworking of trauma and constructed alternative narratives that challenged dominant, often denialist, historical accounts. Individual testimonies became a form of public counter-memory, questioning the limitations of traditional judicial institutions.
Crucially, this activism has redefined the survivor’s role: from a marginalized victim to a politically engaged agent of collective memory, thereby advancing new frameworks of justice and deepening our understanding of sexual violence as a strategic tool of war.
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