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11. The Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei's Writings on the Pacific War

Author

David C. Stahl and Erik R. Lofgren

Subjects
Literature, Battle, Psychoanalysis, History, Literature and Literary Theory, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Empathy, Witness, Politics, Spanish Civil War, Expression (architecture), Memoir, business, Prisoners of war, media_common
Abstract

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 of survivor mission. David C. Stahl examines Ooka's battlefield memoirs, including the established war classic Fires on the Plain (1952), in terms of extreme experience, survivor guilt, bearing witness, and the "inability to mourn." Writing enabled Ooka to give cathartic expression to his haunting battlefield experience and made it possible for him to move from blame-shifting to empathy and mourning. The lengthy, exhaustively researched historical work The Battle for Leyte Island (1967-1969) faithfully details the personal and collective experience of battle, depravation, and loss, and clarifies who and what was ultimately responsible for defeat. Toward the end of this work and Return to Mindoro Island (1969), Ooka draws attention to the outstanding obligations owed by his countrymen to the war dead and suggests how they can be fulfilled by public confrontation, learning the lessons of defeat, and using them to rectify lingering social and political evils.

Published
2003
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12. After the Quake: Stories

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Erik R. Lofgren, Jay Rubin, and Haruki Murakami

Subjects
Quake (natural phenomenon), Literature and Literary Theory, Forensic engineering, Sociology
Published
2003
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29. Selected Poems

Author

Lofgren, Erik R., primary, Shiki, Masaoka, additional, and Watson, Burton, additional

Published
1998
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30. Amrita

Author

Lofgren, Erik R., primary, Yoshimoto, Banana, additional, and Wasden, Russell F., additional

Published
1998
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48. Japanese Fiction Writers, 1868-1945

Author

Erik R. Lofgren and Van C. Gessel

Subjects
Literary fiction, Literature, History, Literature and Literary Theory, business.industry, World War II, Earth in science fiction, Science fiction fandom, Fantasy, business, Techno-thriller
Published
1998
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49. Selected Poems

Author

Erik R. Lofgren, Masaoka Shiki, and Burton Watson

Subjects
Literature and Literary Theory
Published
1998
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50. Amrita

Author

Erik R. Lofgren, Banana Yoshimoto, and Russell F. Wasden

Subjects
Literature and Literary Theory
Published
1998
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