Joshua D Pilzer Boeken

Hearts of Pine focuses on the selves and social lives that three former Korean 'comfort women' cultivated through song. During four decades of post-war public secrecy about the comfort women system, song served for these women as both a private and a public means of coping with their trauma - each used song in a different way to reckon with their experiences and to forge a new sense of self.

Quietude considers Korean Hiroshima victims' uses of voice, speech, song, and movement in the struggle for national and global recognition, in the ongoing work of negotiating their traumatic past, and in the effort to consolidate and maintain selves and relationships in the present.