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

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-351-59599-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 274 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Japanese literature and film through the interpretive lens of trauma studies. Focusing on depictions of protagonists who dissociated their childhood, adolescent and young adulthood traumas, failed to mourn their losses, developed psychological defense mechanisms of incorporation, substitution and revenge, were repeatedly triggered by unconscious situational reminders of their unintegrated traumas to reenact them and were unable to convert traumatic memory into narrative memory and thereby facilitate self-awareness and recovery, this volume will concentrate on literary and filmic texts in which traumatized protagonists are eventually able, through the creation of narrative memory and other means, to effect partial and advanced recovery. As such, the book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese film and literature, as well as those of trauma studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stahl, David C.

Stahl, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Partial Recoveries 1 Natsume Soseki: Kokoro 2 Ooka Shohei: Fires on the Plain 3 Natsume Soseki: Grass on the Wayside Part II: Advanced Recoveries 4 Oe Kenzaburo: A Personal Matter 5 Takahata Isao: Grave of the Fireflies 6 Imamura Shohei: Black Rain 7 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

David Stahl is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at Binghampton University, USA.