David C. Stahl is Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at Binghamton University, USA. His publications include Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film (2017) and The Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei’s Writings on the Pacific War (2003).

• Introduction Part 1: Trauma, Narrative Memory and Partial Recovery 1. Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro 2. Ōoka Shōhei’s Fires on the Plain Part 2: Trauma, Intra/Interpersonal Response-ability and Relational Healing 3. Ōe Kenzaburō’s A Personal Matter 4.Imamura Shōhei’s Black Rain Conclusion

David C. Stahl is Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at Binghamton University, USA. His publications include Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film (2017) and The Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei’s Writings on the Pacific War (2003).

• Introduction Part 1: Trauma, Narrative Memory and Partial Recovery 1. Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro 2. Ōoka Shōhei’s Fires on the Plain Part 2: Trauma, Intra/Interpersonal Response-ability and Relational Healing 3. Ōe Kenzaburō’s A Personal Matter 4.Imamura Shōhei’s Black Rain Conclusion

David C. Stahl is Professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at Binghamton University, USA. His publications include Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film (2017) and The Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei’s Writings on the Pacific War (2003).

• Introduction Part 1: Trauma, Narrative Memory and Partial Recovery 1. Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro 2. Ōoka Shōhei’s Fires on the Plain Part 2: Trauma, Intra/Interpersonal Response-ability and Relational Healing 3. Ōe Kenzaburō’s A Personal Matter 4.Imamura Shōhei’s Black Rain Conclusion