The Earth Writes

The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post-3/11 Japan

Koichi Haga (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

148 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6903-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores how the tremendous earthquake on March 11, 2011 impacted literary authors in Japan and generated issues and perspectives previously unrecognized in Japanese literary and social culture. The disaster itself caused an earthquake, tsunami, and an nuclear accident, and provided the grounds for "post 3/11" literature in Japan.

This book extensively analyzes the literary works of fiction that draw on the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011. This disaster inspired literally hundreds of fictional works in Japan from the time of the events through 2017. This response represents a unique and perhaps unprecedented cultural phenomenon in the world. Since a variety of writers in different genres, and even amateurs, have written and published books inspired by their experiences of the disaster, it is extremely difficult to cover the entire body of Japanese “post-3.11 literature”. Because of the breadth of this literary response, there is a scarcity of research on the subject available. This book offers the first comprehensive review of Japan’s recent post-disaster literary production to the English audience.

Koichi Haga is associate professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at Josai International University in Japan.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Overview of Post 3.11 Cultural Production
Part I: The Immediate Impact of the 3.11 Disaster on the Writers’ Consciousness
Chapter One. Ecological Time-Space Emerging from the Encounter with the 3.11
Earthquake and Tsunami: The first phase of Post 3.11 literary production
Chapter Two. Fissures Opened in Literary Ground: The Great East Japan Earthquake and
Kenzaburō Ōe’s In Late Style
Chapter Three. Animal Agencies in Post-3.11 Literature
Part II: Acceleration of the Writers’ Ecological Consciousness
Chapter Four. Remembrance of Postcolonial Conditions―The Earthquake’s Disclosure
of Uncommon Ground: Tōhoku Area as the Other Within
Chapter Five. Dystopian Novels Flourish in the Post-3.11 Period
Chapter Six. The Emergence of a Planetary Sense Through Geographic Catastrophe
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4985-6903-X / 149856903X
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-6903-3 / 9781498569033
Zustand	Neuware