Social Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film

ISBN-13: 9780367785437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

David Stahl

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of major works in Japanese literature and film through the interpretive lens of trauma studies. Focusing on the psychodynamics and enduring psychosocial aftereffects of social trauma, it also evaluates the themes of dissociation, failed mourning and psychological defence fantasies.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Trauma, Narrative Memory and Partial Recovery 1. Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro  2. Ōoka Shōhei’s Fires on the Plain  Part 2: Trauma, Intra/Interpersonal Response-ability and Relational Healing  3. Ōe Kenzaburō’s A Personal Matter  4.Imamura Shōhei’s Black Rain  Conclusion

O autorze

David C. Stahl is Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at Binghamton University, USA. His publications include Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film (2017) and The Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei’s Writings on the Pacific War (2003).