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Stahl: Burdens of Survival: Ooka
David C Stahl
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Hardcover. Ooka Shohei (1909-1988) is one of Japan's most influential writers and social critics. This book tells the illuminating story of Ooka's arduous journey that began with guilt-ridden survival as a POW in the Phillipines and culminated 25 years later in the fruitful completion of survivor mission. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BG; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 680.
Although still virtually unknown in the West, Ooka Shohei (1909-1988) is one of Japan's most important and influential writers and social critics. The Burdens of Survival is both a seminal English-language study of this preeminent literary figure and one of the first scholarly works to thoroughly examine the war literature of a major Japanese veteran-author. Drawing on Robert Jay Lifton's work on traumatic experience and survivor psychology, the book tells the illuminating story of Ooka's arduous journey that began with guilt-ridden survival as a prisoner of war in the Philippines and culminated some twenty-five years later in the fruitful completion ... Read more
Although still virtually unknown in the West, Ooka Shohei (1909-1988) is one of Japan's most important and influential writers and social critics. The Burdens of Survival is both a seminal English-language study of this preeminent literary figure and one of the first scholarly works to thoroughly examine the war literature of a major Japanese veteran-author. Drawing on Robert Jay Lifton's work on traumatic experience and survivor psychology, the book tells the illuminating story of Ooka's arduous journey that began with guilt-ridden survival as a prisoner of war in the Philippines and culminated some twenty-five years later in the fruitful completion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824825409
SKU
V9780824825409
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About David C Stahl
David C. Stahl is assistant professor of Japanese at Williams College.
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