Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons Honors Projects Student Scholarship and Creative Work 2017 The Scars of War: The Demonic Mother as a Conduit for Expressing Victimization, Collective Guilt, and Forgiveness in Postwar Japanese Film, 1949-1964 Sophia Walker Bowdoin College,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/honorsprojects Part of the Asian History Commons, Japanese Studies Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, and the Visual Studies Commons Recommended Citation Walker, Sophia, "The Scars of War: The Demonic Mother as a Conduit for Expressing Victimization, Collective Guilt, and Forgiveness in Postwar Japanese Film, 1949-1964" (2017). Honors Projects. 73. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/honorsprojects/73 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship and Creative Work at Bowdoin Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Projects by an authorized administrator of Bowdoin Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Scars of War: The Demonic Mother as a Conduit for Expressing Victimization, Collective Guilt, and Forgiveness in Postwar Japanese Film, 1949-1964 An Honors Project for the Program of Asian Studies By Sophia Walker Bowdoin College, 2017 ©2017 Sophia Walker This work is for my family. For being unafraid to be different, and for teaching me to do the same. This is especially for my mom and for my grandmother, my Baba. I come from some tough Japanese women. !iv Table of Contents List of Figures v Acknowledgements vi Introduction. Revenant From the Past: The Longevity of the Demon Mother 1 Chapter 1.