Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia by Tina Burrett, Je... - 9781032274232

Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East AsiaAuthor(s): Tina Burrett, Jeff Kingston\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032274232, 978-1032274232\nSynopsis\nThis handbook explores trauma in East Asia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, assessing how victims, perpetrators and societies have responded to such experiences and to what extent the legacies still resonate today.\n\nMapping the trauma-scape of East Asia from an interdisciplinary perspective, including anthropologists, historians, film and literary critics, scholars of law, media and education, political scientists and sociologists, this book significantly enhances understandings of the regions traumatic pasts and how those memories have since been suppressed, exhumed, represented and disputed. In Asias contested memory-scape there is much at stake for perpetrators, their victims and heirs to their respective traumas. The scholarly research in this.