Imag(in)Ing the War in Japan

Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines how various Japanese authors and other artists seeking artistic representation of traumatic Asia Pacific War experience have drawn upon their imaginative powers to create affect-charged images of the extreme violence, psychological damage and ideological contradiction surrounding the conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9789004182981
• ISBN-10: 9004182985
• Artikelnr.: 29442994

Autorenporträt

Mark Williams, Ph.D. (1991) in Japanese Literature, University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of Japanese Studies and Chair of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published extensively on Japanese literature of the immediate postwar period, including Endō Shūsaku: A Literature of Reconciliation (Routledge, 1989). David C. Stahl, Ph.D. (1994) in Japanese Literature, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema and Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY). He has published on Japanese survivor representation of and response to war trauma, including Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei's Writings on the Pacific War (University of Hawai'i, 2003).