Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective (eBook)

Between Sea and Sky

Yuki Masami, Bruce Allen (Herausgeber)

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2015
228 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9423-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of ecocritical essays focuses on the work of Ishimure Michiko, Japan’s foremost writer on the environment and culture. It discusses Ishimure’s writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, with particular reference to environmental problems in Minamata and Fukushima, and argues for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility.

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This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan's foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many critics as Japan's most original and important literary writer. Ishimure has written over 50 volumes in a wide range of genres, including novels, Noh drama, poetry, children's stories, essays, and mixed-genre writing. This collection brings together the work of scholars from Japan, the U.S., and Canada who are authorities on Ishimure's writing. Contributors discuss Ishimure's writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, arguing for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility. It will help to relate various environmental, cultural, and ecocritical issues, ranging from the events at Minamata to those at Fukushima, and consider how they point to future developments.

Autor

Bruce Allen is professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Seisen University, Tokyo.Yuki Masami is professor at Kanazawa University where she teaches environmental literature and English as a foreign language.

Inhalt

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBruce Allen and Yuki MasamiChapter 1: The World of Kugai JōdoWatanabe KyōjiChapter 2: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui SeaIkezawa NatsukiChapter 3: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko’s Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease IncidentYuki MasamiChapter 4: Mapping Modernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko’s Kugai JōdoToyosato MayumiChapter 5: Literature Without UsChristine MarranChapter 6: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary ThinkerIwaoka NakamasaChapter 7: Atonement and At-one-ment: From Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of HeavenPatrick MurphyChapter 8: Ishimure Michiko and Global EcocriticismKaren ThornberChapter 9: Another World in This World: Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko’s Villages of the GodsLivia MonnetChapter 10: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure MichikoBruce AllenChapter 11: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh PlayA Translation by Aihara Yuko and Bruce AllenAbout the Editors and Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Co-Autor: Watanabe Kyoji, Christine Marran, Toyosato Mayumi, Livia Monnet, Patrick D. Murphy, Iwaoka Nakamasa, IKEZAWA NATSUKI, Karen Thornber
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Animism • Ecocriticism • ecofeminism • Environmental Humanities • Environmental Literature • Industrial Pollution • Ishimure Michiko • mercury pollution • Minamata disease • toxic discourse
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9423-2 / 0739194232
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9423-2 / 9780739194232