Earth Writes (eBook)

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

Koichi Haga (Autor)

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2019
148 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6904-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Overview of Post 3.11 Cultural ProductionPart I:The Immediate Impact of the 3.11 Disaster on the Writers’ ConsciousnessChapter One. Ecological Time-Space Emerging from the Encounter with the 3.11Earthquake and Tsunami: The first phase of Post 3.11 literary productionChapter Two. Fissures Opened in Literary Ground: The Great East Japan Earthquake andKenzaburō Ōe’s In Late StyleChapter Three. Animal Agencies in Post-3.11 LiteraturePart II: Acceleration of the Writers’ Ecological ConsciousnessChapter Four. Remembrance of Postcolonial Conditions―The Earthquake’s Disclosureof Uncommon Ground: Tōhoku Area as the Other WithinChapter Five. Dystopian Novels Flourish in the Post-3.11 PeriodChapter Six. The Emergence of a Planetary Sense Through Geographic CatastropheConclusionBibliography IndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 3.11 Disaster • 3.11 Earthquake • Earthquake and Literature • Ecocriticism in Japan • Japanese culture • japanese literature • Post-disaster Literature
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6904-8 / 1498569048
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6904-0 / 9781498569040