University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Masters Theses Dissertations and Theses October 2017 FORGETTING TRAUMATIC WAR MEMORY: A CASE STUDY OF THE JAPANESE ANIME SERIES "THE BIG O" NAOMI CHIBA University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2 Part of the Japanese Studies Commons Recommended Citation CHIBA, NAOMI, "FORGETTING TRAUMATIC WAR MEMORY: A CASE STUDY OF THE JAPANESE ANIME SERIES "THE BIG O"" (2017). Masters Theses. 554. https://doi.org/10.7275/10133978 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/554 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FORGETTING TRAUMATIC WAR MEMORY: A CASE STUDY OF THE JAPANESE ANIME SERIES THE BIG O A Thesis Presented by By NAOMI CHIBA Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS September 2017 Japanese Copyright © by Naomi Chiba 2017 All Rights Reserved FORGETTING TRAUMATIC WAR MEMORY: A CASE STUDY OF THE JAPANESE ANIME SERIES THE BIG O A Thesis Presented By NAOMI CHIBA Approved as to style and content by: __________________________________________ Amanda Seaman, Chair __________________________________________ Bruce Baird, Member _____________________________________________ David K. Schneider, Program Director East Asian Languages and Cultures _____________________________________________ William Moebius, Department Head Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my chief committee member Professor Amanda Seaman.