Literature after Fukushima from marginalized voices to nuclear futurity / edited by Linda Flores and Barbara Geilhorn.

Other author Flores, Linda (Linda M.)
Other author Geilhorn, Barbara.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
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SeriesAsia's transformations
Contents Real eyes realize real lies : writing 'Fukushima' through the child's gaze / Aidana Bolatbekkyzy -- Animal stories : agency after radiation / Doug Slaymaker -- Voice and voicelessness : reading vernaculars in post-3.11 literature / Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt -- From that day forward : T¿‍hoku, 3.11, and 'memory landscapes' / Linda Flores -- The nuclear home and the alien village : the production of post-3.11 space in Sakate Y¿‍ji's Lone war / Justine Wiesinger -- Between trauma processing, emotional healing, and nuclear criticism : documentary theater responding to the Fukushima disaster / Barbara Geilhorn -- Lost in narration in Tawada Y¿‍ko's The emissary / Dan Fujiwara -- Spoiled meals : immunitary and metabolic imaginaries in Kawakami Mieko's 'Dreams of love, etc.' and Murata Sayaka's Convenience store woman / Chiara Pavone -- Humanism and the Hikari-event : reading ¿Œe with Stengers in catastrophic times / Margherita Long -- Afterword: Chernobyl's past and Fukushima's remembered future / Rachel DiNitto.
Abstract "This book analyses the social impact and literary works addressing Japan's 3.11 'Triple Disaster' - The Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Through an examination of the key works in the expanding corpus of 3.11 literature the book explores the ongoing dimensions of the disaster, demonstrating how it reframed both social reality and discourse, including trauma studies, ecocriticism, regional identity, food safety and civil society. The contributions discuss aspects of these perspectival shifts in the literary world, tracing the reshaping of Japanese identity in the years after the triple disaster. The cultural productions explored offer a glimpse into the public imaginary and demonstrate how disasters can fundamentally reshape our individual and shared conception of both history and the present moment. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Literature after Fukushima London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 9781032258577
Genre/formElectronic books.
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