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

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-78543-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

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

Building on earlier studies, this book emphasizes the role of protagonists in managing to effect partial recovery by composing memoirs in which they transform dissociated traumatic memory into articulate, narrative memory or bring about advanced recovery by pioneering alternative means of orally communicating, working through, and overcoming debilitating personal histories of traumatization and victimization. In so doing, Stahl also demonstrates that what holds true on the individual and microcosmic level, also does so on the collective and macrocosmic level.

This new critical approach sheds important new light on canonical Japanese novels and films and enables recognition and appreciation of integral psychosocial aspects of these traumatic narratives. 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stahl, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1: Trauma, Narrative Memory and Partial Recovery 1. Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro 2. Ooka Shohei’s Fires on the Plain Part 2: Trauma, Intra/Interpersonal Response-ability and Relational Healing 3. Oe Kenzaburo’s A Personal Matter 4.Imamura Shohei’s Black Rain Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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: Ooka Shohei’s Writings on the Pacific War (2003).