Keller's answer was quite interesting: "I really felt that sometimes I entered a type of trance, that I was really connected to something higher myself. In an interview with the novelist, Martha Cinader astutely asked Keller whether she had seen herself "as a shaman" while writing Comfort Woman. Keller was so haunted by the graphic images of the former military comfort woman's horrible experience that her dreams were filled with "images of war and women, of blood and birth." She found that the only way to "exorcise these images was through writing." Keller's reminiscence of her peculiar experience is shamanistic in its images and implications: she seems to have been possessed by the spirits of comfort women, who urged her to bear witness to their military sex slavery in writing. When she attended a human rights symposium in 1993, Nora Okja Keller listened to the testimony of Keum Ju Hwang and learned the truth of Japanese military sex slavery in World War II. Positions: east asia cultures critique 12.2 (2004) 431-456
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