Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster â the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Through an examination of key works in the expanding corpus of 3.11 literature the book explores how the disasterâboth its immediate aftereffects and its continued unfoldingâreframed discourse in various areas such as trauma studies, eco-criticism, regional identity, food safety, civil society, and beyond. Individual chapters discuss aspects of these perspectival shifts, tracing the reshaping of Japanese identity after the triple disaster. The cultural productions explored offer a glimpse into the public imaginary and demonstrate how disasters can fundamentally redefine our individual and shared conception of both history and the present moment.Literature after Fukushima is the first English-language book to provide an in-depth analysis of such a wide range of representative post-3.11 literature and its social ramifications. Contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the post-disaster climate of Japanese society and adding new perspectives through literary analysis, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Japanese and Asian Studies, Literary Studies, Environmental Humanities, as well as Cultural and Transcultural Studies.
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Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster â the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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Introduction Part 1: Marginalized Voices 1. Real Eyes Realize Real Lies: Writing âFukushimaâ through the Childâs Gaze 2. Animal Stories: Agency after Radiation 3. Voice and Voicelessness: Reading Vernaculars in Post-3.11 Literature Part 2: Spatial Acts 4. From That Day Forward: TĹhoku, 3.11, and âMemory Landscapesâ 5. The Nuclear Home and the Alien Village: The Production of Post-3.11 Space in Sakate YĹjiâs Lone War 6. Between Trauma Processing, Emotional Healing, and Nuclear Criticismâ Documentary Theater Responding to the Fukushima Disaster Part 3: Border-Crossing 7. Lost in Narration in Tawada YĹkoâs The Emissary 8. Spoiled Meals: Immunitary and Metabolic Imaginaries in Kawakami Miekoâs âDreams of Love, Etc.â and Murata Sayaka's Convenience Store Woman Part 4: Nuclear Futurity 9. Humanism and the Hikari-Event: Reading Ĺe with Stengers in Catastrophic Times 10. Afterword: Chernobylâs Past and Fukushimaâs Remembered Future
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781032258584
Publisert
2024-10-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
U, P, 05, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208
Om bidragsyterne
Linda Flores is an Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Literature in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford and the Fellow in Japanese Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford, UK.
Barbara Geilhorn is a Principal Researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ) and an Adjunct Researcher at the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Japan.