Imag(in)ing the war in Japan : representing and responding to trauma in postwar literature and film / / edited by David Stahl and Mark Williams.
This study of a series of artistic representations of the Asia Pacific War experience in a variety of Japanese media is premised on Walter Davis' assertion that traumatic events and experiences must be 'constituted' before they can be assimilated, integrated and understood. Arguing th...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 34 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Japanese studies library ;
v. 34. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / David C. Stahl & Mark B. Williams
- Catastrophe, memory, and narrative : teaching Japanese and Jewish responses to twentieth-century atrocity / Alan Tansman
- Murakami Haruki and the war inside / Jay Rubin
- To make gods and demons weep : witnessing the sublime in 'Death in Midsummer' and 'Patriotism' / Dennis Washburn
- Writing the traumatized self : Tenkåo in the literature of Shiina Rinzåo / Mark Williams
- Okuizumi Hikaru and the mystery of war memory / Angela Yiu
- Victimization and 'response-ability' : remembering, representing, and working through trauma in Grave of the fireflies / David C. Stahl
- Fractious memories in Medoruma Shun's Tales of war / Davinder L. Bhowmik
- Framing the ruins : the documentary photographs of Yamahata Yåosuke (Nagasaki, August 10, 1945) / Mark Silver
- Responsibility and Japanese literature of the atomic bomb / Karen Thornber
- Of brutality and betrayal : youthful fiction and the legacy of the Asia Pacific War / Christine E. Wiley
- Contesting traumatic war narratives : Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam / William Ashbaugh.