Imag(in)ing the war in Japan
Subtitle: representing and responding to trauma in postwar literature and film
By: by Mark Williams [editor].
Contributors: Williams, Mark.
Series: Brill's Japanese studies library
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789004182981
Subjects: Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Literature and the war; Motion pictures -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Motion pictures and the war; Psychic trauma in literature; Psychic trauma in motion pictures
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mark B. Williams & David C. Stahl; title: Catastrophe, memory, and narrative : teaching Japanese and Jewish responses to twentieth-century atrocity / Alan Tansman; title: Murakami Haruki and the war inside / Jay Rubin; title: To make gods and demons weep : witnessing the sublime in 'Death in Midsummer' and 'Patriotism' / Dennis Washburn; title: Writing the traumatized self : Tenko in the literature of Shiina Rinzo / Mark Williams; title: Okuizumi Hikaru and the mystery of war memory / Angela Yiu; title: Victimization and 'response-ability' : remembering, representing, and working through trauma in Grave of the fireflies / David C. Stahl; title: Fractious memories in Medoruma Shun's Tales of war / Davinder L. Bhowmik; title: Framing the ruins : the documentary photographs of Yamahata Yosuke (Nagasaki, August 10, 1945) / Mark Silver; title: Responsibility and Japanese literature of the atomic bomb  / Karen Thornber; title: Of brutality and betrayal : youthful fiction and the legacy of the Asia Pacific War / Christine E. Wiley; title: Contesting traumatic war narratives : Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam / William Ashbaugh.