Ecocriticism in Japan

Hisaaki Wake, Keijiro Suga, Yuki Masami (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2784-2 (ISBN)

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Ecocriticism in Japan provides an answer to the question, “What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture?” Engaging works ranging from The Tale of Genji to Abe, Ōe, Ishimure, and Miyazaki, this volume examines works Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.

What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world. Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel The Tale of Genji, an early twentieth-century writer Taoka Reiun, the post-WWII atomic bombing literature by women, the internationally-renowned Abe Kobo, the Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo, the world-widely popular writer Murakami Haruki, the Minamata writer Ishimure Michiko, and the anime artist Miyazaki Hayao to the recent TV anime Coppelion, a production that foresaw a devastating nuclear disaster after the Great East Japan Earthquake, this volume extricates and discusses innate, complex values of Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.

Hisaaki Wake is assistant professor of Japanese at the US Air Force Academy. Yuki Masami is professor of human and socio-environmental studies at Kanazawa University. Keijiro Suga is professor at Meiji University.

Foreword by Ursula Heise
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Yuki Masami
Chapter 1: Exploring Ecocritical Perspectives by Juxtaposing The Tale of Genji's "Suma" chapter with Folktales by Marjorie Rhine
Chapter 2: Taoka Reiun and Environmental Thought in the Early 1900s by Ronald Loftus by
Chapter 3: Kyoko Matsunaga Radioactive Discourse and Atomic Bomb Texts: Ota Yoko, Sata Ineko, and by Hayashi Kyoko
Chapter 4: Abe Kõbõ in Ecosophy by Toshiya Ueno
Chapter 5: Literary ground opened in fissures: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Oe Kenzaburo's In Late Style by Haga Koichi
Chapter 6: Oe and the Uses of Ecocritical Affect: Suspicion, Shame and Care after 3.11 by Margherita Long
Chapter 7: Nature Strikes Back: Human Interaction with Natural Forces in Literary Representations of Disaster by Alex Bates
Chapter 8: Horses and Ferns: Kaneko Mitsuharu and Furukawa Hideo by Doug Slaymaker
Chapter 9: Invisible Waves: On Some Japanese Artists After March 11, 2011 by Keijiro Suga
Chapter 10: From "Suffering"

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor	Alex Bates, Koichi Haga
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w illustrations; 3 colour photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 239 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-4985-2784-1 / 1498527841
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-2784-2 / 9781498527842
Zustand	Neuware