Theorizing post-disaster literature in Japan : revisiting the literary and cultural landscape after the triple disasters /

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kimura, Saeko, 1968- (Author)
Group Author: DiNitto, Rachel (Translator); Slaymaker, Douglas (Translator)
Published: Lexington Books,
Publisher Address: Lanham, MD :
Publication Dates: [2022]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Japanese
Series: New studies in modern Japan
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Summary: "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"--
Carrier Form: xlix, 160 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781793605368
179360536X
Index Number: PL726
CLC: TL732
I313.065
Call Number: I313.065/K499
Contents: Translators' foreword / Rachel DiNitto and Doug Slaymaker -- Preface to the English translation -- Preface: Following my Shinsaigo Bungakuron (On postdisaster literature) -- Postdisaster literature and minorities -- The problem of "Fukushima" -- From Fukushima to Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- From disaster to war -- The hauntology of postdisaster literature -- Post-Fukushima sublime and the anxiety of hauntology -- Radiation and precarious life.