Imag(in)ing the War in Japan

Mark Williams, Ph.D. (1991) in Japanese Literature, University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of Japanese Studies and Chair of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published extensively on Japanese literature of the immediate postwar period, including Endō Shūsaku: A Literature of Reconciliation (Routledge, 1989). David C. Stahl, Ph.D. (1994) in Japanese Literature, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema and Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY). He has published on Japanese survivor representation of and response to war trauma, including Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei's Writings on the Pacific War (University of Hawai'i, 2003).

'Stahl and Williams (...) make a solid contribution to understandings of trauma and Japanese art, literature, and film, complementing other recent works like Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War.'Erik Ropers, Towson University, Melbourne Historical Journal, 40