Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan: Revisiting the Literary and Cultural Landscape after the Triple Disasters

by Saeko Kimura, Rachel DiNitto (Translator), Doug Slaymaker (Translator)

Overview

This seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the triple disasters—the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793605382
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	04/08/2024
Series:	New Studies in Modern Japan
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.97(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Saeko Kimura is professor in the Department of International and Cultural Studies at Tsuda University.

Rachel DiNitto is professor of Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures at the University of Oregon.

Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Translators’ Foreword, Rachel DiNitto and Doug Slaymaker

Preface to the English Translation

Preface: Following My Shinsaigo Bungakuron (On Postdisaster Literature)

Chapter 1: Post Disaster Literature and Minorities

Chapter 2: The Problem of “Fukushima”

Chapter 3: From Fukushima to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Chapter 4: From Disaster to War

Chapter 5: The Hauntology of Postdisaster Literature

Chapter 6: Post-Fukushima Sublime and the Anxiety of Hauntology

Chapter 7: Radiation and Precarious Life

Epilogue

Bibliography

About the Author and Translators