Cultural identity has been an ongoing issue for minority group members in the United States, of which Asian American literature has been an active site. Asian American women`s literature, especially Korean, Chinese, and Japanese American women`s literature, has taken a more complex task to deal with this issue of identity while attempting to foreground feminist consciousness. Nora Okja Keller`s Comfort Woman proves a significant achievement in this issue through a highly artistic and symbolic rendering of the colonial violence upon women`s body, turning the memory of the violence into the basis for sympathy with others and the formation of a new hybrid identity of Korean American women. Adopting the Korean shamanic ritual of possession as a key device to impersonate others, to understand and become others, and to remember and mourn the victims of the colonial violence that had been omitted from the official history, Keller adumbrates the possibility of the emergence of a new type of identity for Korean American women, beyond the concept of individual agency toward a more fluid, flexible, and sympathetic identity, which urges readers` imagination for further exploration. (Seoul National University)