The Earth Writes

The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post-3/11 Japan

Koichi Haga (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

148 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6905-7 (ISBN)

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This book explores how the tremendous earthquake on March 11, 2011 impacted literary authors in Japan and generated issues and perspectives previously unrecognized in Japanese literary and social culture. The disaster itself caused an earthquake, tsunami, and an nuclear accident, and provided the grounds for "post 3/11" literature in Japan.

This book extensively analyzes the literary works of fiction that draw on the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011. This disaster inspired literally hundreds of fictional works in Japan from the time of the events through 2017. This response represents a unique and perhaps unprecedented cultural phenomenon in the world. Since a variety of writers in different genres, and even amateurs, have written and published books inspired by their experiences of the disaster, it is extremely difficult to cover the entire body of Japanese “post-3.11 literature”. Because of the breadth of this literary response, there is a scarcity of research on the subject available. This book offers the first comprehensive review of Japan’s recent post-disaster literary production to the English audience.

Koichi Haga is associate professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at Josai International University in Japan.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Overview of Post 3.11 Cultural Production

Part I:The Immediate Impact of the 3.11 Disaster on the Writers’ Consciousness

Chapter One. Ecological Time-Space Emerging from the Encounter with the 3.11

Earthquake and Tsunami: The first phase of Post 3.11 literary production

Chapter Two. Fissures Opened in Literary Ground: The Great East Japan Earthquake and

Kenzaburo Oe’s In Late Style

Chapter Three. Animal Agencies in Post-3.11 Literature

Part II: Acceleration of the Writers’ Ecological Consciousness

Chapter Four. Remembrance of Postcolonial Conditions?The Earthquake’s Disclosure

of Uncommon Ground: Tohoku Area as the Other Within

Chapter Five. Dystopian Novels Flourish in the Post-3.11 Period

Chapter Six. The Emergence of a Planetary Sense Through Geographic Catastrophe

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 220 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4985-6905-6 / 1498569056
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-6905-7 / 9781498569057
Zustand	Neuware