Ecocriticism in Japan (eBook)

Yuki Masami, Keijiro Suga, Hisaaki Wake (Herausgeber)

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2017
308 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2785-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Foreword by Ursula HeiseAcknowledgements Introduction by Yuki MasamiChapter 1: Exploring Ecocritical Perspectives by Juxtaposing The Tale of Genji's "Suma" chapter with Folktales by Marjorie RhineChapter 2: Taoka Reiun and Environmental Thought in the Early 1900s by Ronald Loftus byChapter 3: Kyoko Matsunaga Radioactive Discourse and Atomic Bomb Texts: Ōta Yōko, Sata Ineko, and by Hayashi KyōkoChapter 4: Abe Kõbõ in Ecosophy by Toshiya UenoChapter 5: Literary ground opened in fissures: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Ōe Kenzaburō's In Late Style by Haga KoichiChapter 6: Ōe and the Uses of Ecocritical Affect: Suspicion, Shame and Care after 3.11 by Margherita LongChapter 7: Nature Strikes Back: Human Interaction with Natural Forces in Literary Representations of Disaster by Alex BatesChapter 8: Horses and Ferns: Kaneko Mitsuharu and Furukawa Hideo by Doug SlaymakerChapter 9: Invisible Waves: On Some Japanese Artists After March 11, 2011 by Keijiro SugaChapter 10: From "Suffering" to "Compassion": The World of Ishimure Michiko's Works by Shuji TakazawaChapter 11: Representation of Nomads in the Works of Ishimure Michiko by Daisuke HiguchiChapter 12: On the Ideological Manipulation of Nature in Japanese Popular Culture: Miyazaki, Hyakuta, Ishimure by Hisaaki WakeChapter 13: A Chaosmos of Condivision: Radiation Aesthetics in the TV Anime Series Coppelion (2013) by Livia MonnetChapter 14: Arboreal Unicorns and Other Megaflora: On Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s film Charisma by Christine MarranAbout the Contributors Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Co-Autor: Alex Bates, Marjorie Rhine, Doug Slaymaker, Shuji Takazawa, Toshiya Ueno, Caroline Wake, Koichi Haga, Ursula Heise, Daisuke Higuchi, Ronald Loftus, Margherita Long, Christine Marran, Kyoko Matsunaga, Livia Monnet
• Zusatzinfo: 4 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 3 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: ecocritical theory • Ecocriticism • Japan
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2785-X / 149852785X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2785-9 / 9781498527859