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Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film book cover

1st Edition

Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film

By David Stahl Copyright 2018
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge
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Japanese literature and film have frequently been approached using lenses such as language, genre and ideology. Yet, despite a succession of major social traumas that have marked, and in many ways shaped and defined much of modern Japan, Japanese fiction and cinema have not often been examined psychoanalytically. In this book, David Stahl conducts in-depth readings and interpretations of a set... Read more

Introduction

1. Trauma/PTSD Studies Theory

2. Kawabata Yasunari’s Thousand Cranes 

3. Enchi Fumiko’s Female Masks 

4. Kawabata Yasunari’s Sleeping Beauties

5. Imamura Shōhei’s Vengeance is Mine

Conclusion

Biography

David C. Stahl is Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at Binghamton University. His research interests are trauma/PTSD studies and artistic representation of social trauma and its aftereffects.

"I believe that Stahl has chosen texts of the highest artistic value for his analysis. Each text displays an inimitably masterful stylistic formation as well as psychological and narrative depths that could puzzle the most experienced readers. What is more, these texts unflinchingly depict the numbing sense of immorality the main characters exhibit."

Hosea Hirata, Contemporary Japan, Vol 30, No 1 (2018),  Tufts University

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