"World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Japan Okinawa Island." . . "Kollektives Gedächtnis." . . "Military campaigns." . . "Psychic trauma in literature." . . "HISTORY / Asia / Japan / bisacsh." . . "Kriegsliteratur." . . "1939 - 1945" . . "Literatur." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General." . . "HISTORY / Asia / General." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General" . . "War in literature." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "As one of Okinawa's most insightful writers and social critics, Medoruma 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 through his groundbreaking and prize-winning fiction, editorials, essays, and speaking engagements. Yet, his writing has not been analyzed in regard to how his experience and identity as the child of two survivors of the Battle of Okinawa have powerfully shaped his understanding of the war and h."@en . . . . . . . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . . . . . . . . . . "\"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\"--" . "\"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\"--"@en . . . . . "\"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\"." . . . . . . "Okinawan war memory : transgenerational trauma and the war fiction of Medoruma Shun"@en . "Okinawan war memory : transgenerational trauma and the war fiction of Medoruma Shun" . "Electronic books"@en . "Okinawan War Memory Transgenerational Trauma and the War Fiction of Medoruma Shun"@en . . . . . . "HISTORY / Asia / Japan." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General / bisacsh." . . . . "Japan" . . "HISTORY / Asia / General / bisacsh." . . "Okinawa Schlacht (1945)" . . "Nachkriegszeit." . . "World War, 1939-1945 Literature and the war." . . "World War (1939-1945)" . . . "War and literature." . . "Okinawa-ken (Japan)" . . "Weltkrieg (1939-1945, Motiv)" . . "Japanisch." . . "Psychisches Trauma." . . "Collective memory in literature." . . "Literature." . .