Research Catalog

Title

Okinawan war memory : transgenerational trauma and the war fiction of Medoruma Shun / Kyle Ikeda.

Author

Ikeda, Kyle.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2014.

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Details

Description

vii, 162 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Asia's transformations

Uniform Title

Asia's transformations.

Subject

• Medoruma, Shun, 1960- > Criticism and interpretation
• World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Japan > Okinawa Island
• War in literature
• Psychic trauma in literature
• Collective memory in literature
• HISTORY / Asia / General
• HISTORY / Asia / Japan
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
• Okinawa-ken (Japan) > In literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-159) and index.

Call Number

JFE 14-2516

ISBN

• 9780415853958 (hardback)
• 0415853958 (hardback)
• 9780203747551 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013025726

OCLC

824532292

Author

Ikeda, Kyle.

Title

Okinawan war memory : transgenerational trauma and the war fiction of Medoruma Shun / Kyle Ikeda.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Asia's transformations

Asia's transformations.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-159) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-2516