Title: Okinawan War Memory Transgenerational Trauma And The War Fiction Of Medoruma Shun
Description: "As one of Okinawa's most insightful writers and social critics Medoruma Shun's experience and identity as the child of two survivors of the Battle of Okinawa have powerfully shaped his understanding of the war and his literary craft. Further, through his groundbreaking and prize-winning fiction, editorials, essays, and speaking engagements, Shun has highlighted the problems and limits of conventional representation of the Battle of Okinawa, raised new questions and concerns about the nature of Okinawan war memory, and expanded the possibilities of representing war. This book examines Okinawan war memory through the lens of Medoruma's war fiction, and pays particular attention to the issues of second-generation war survivorship and transgenerational trauma. It explores how his texts contribute to knowledge about the war and its ongoing effects -- on survivors, their offspring, and the larger community -- in different ways from that of other modes of representation, such as survivor testimony, historical narrative, and realistic fiction. These dominant means of memory making have played a major role in shaping the various discourses about the war and the Battle of Okinawa, yet these forms of public memory and knowledge often exclude or avoid more personal, emotional, and traumatic experiences. Indeed, Ikeda's analysis sheds light on the nature of trauma on survivors and their children who continue to inhabit sites of the traumatic past, and in turn makes an important contribution to studies on trauma and second-generation survivor experiences"--
Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, literature and the war, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, japan, okinawa island, Japanese literature, history and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, World War, 1939-1945, Literature and the war, In literature, Campaigns, War in literature, Psychic trauma in literature, Collective memory in literature, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Littérature et guerre, Dans la littérature, Campagnes et batailles, Guerre dans la littérature, Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature, Mémoire collective dans la littérature, HISTORY, General, Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Ethnic Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM, Asian, Literature, Military campaigns, War and literature