David C. Stahl is Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at Binghamton University. His research interests are trauma/PTSD studies and artistic representation of social trauma and its aftereffects.

"I believe that Stahl has chosen texts of the highest artistic value for his analysis. Each text displays an inimitably masterful stylistic formation as well as psychological and narrative depths that could puzzle the most experienced readers. What is more, these texts unflinchingly depict the numbing sense of immorality the main characters exhibit."Hosea Hirata, Contemporary Japan, Vol 30, No 1 (2018), Tufts University

• Introduction 1. Trauma/PTSD Studies Theory 2. Kawabata Yasunari’s Thousand Cranes 3. Enchi Fumiko’s Female Masks 4. Kawabata Yasunari’s Sleeping Beauties 5. Imamura Shōhei’s Vengeance is Mine Conclusion

David C. Stahl is Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at Binghamton University. His research interests are trauma/PTSD studies and artistic representation of social trauma and its aftereffects.

"I believe that Stahl has chosen texts of the highest artistic value for his analysis. Each text displays an inimitably masterful stylistic formation as well as psychological and narrative depths that could puzzle the most experienced readers. What is more, these texts unflinchingly depict the numbing sense of immorality the main characters exhibit."Hosea Hirata, Contemporary Japan, Vol 30, No 1 (2018), Tufts University

• Introduction 1. Trauma/PTSD Studies Theory 2. Kawabata Yasunari’s Thousand Cranes 3. Enchi Fumiko’s Female Masks 4. Kawabata Yasunari’s Sleeping Beauties 5. Imamura Shōhei’s Vengeance is Mine Conclusion

David C. Stahl is Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at Binghamton University. His research interests are trauma/PTSD studies and artistic representation of social trauma and its aftereffects.

"I believe that Stahl has chosen texts of the highest artistic value for his analysis. Each text displays an inimitably masterful stylistic formation as well as psychological and narrative depths that could puzzle the most experienced readers. What is more, these texts unflinchingly depict the numbing sense of immorality the main characters exhibit."Hosea Hirata, Contemporary Japan, Vol 30, No 1 (2018), Tufts University

• Introduction 1. Trauma/PTSD Studies Theory 2. Kawabata Yasunari’s Thousand Cranes 3. Enchi Fumiko’s Female Masks 4. Kawabata Yasunari’s Sleeping Beauties 5. Imamura Shōhei’s Vengeance is Mine Conclusion