Literature After Fukushima: From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity

ISBN-13: 9781032258577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Flores, Linda

Opis

Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster – the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Marginalized Voices  1. Real Eyes Realize Real Lies: Writing ‘Fukushima’ through the Child’s Gaze  2. Animal Stories: Agency after Radiation  3. Voice and Voicelessness: Reading Vernaculars in Post-3.11 Literature  Part 2: Spatial Acts  4. From That Day Forward: Tōhoku, 3.11, and ‘Memory Landscapes’  5. The Nuclear Home and the Alien Village: The Production of Post-3.11 Space in Sakate Yōji’s Lone War  6. Between Trauma Processing, Emotional Healing, and Nuclear Criticism— Documentary Theater Responding to the Fukushima Disaster  Part 3: Border-Crossing  7. Lost in Narration in Tawada Yōko’s The Emissary  8. Spoiled Meals: Immunitary and Metabolic Imaginaries in Kawakami Mieko’s ‘Dreams of Love, Etc.’ and Murata Sayaka's Convenience Store Woman  Part 4: Nuclear Futurity  9. Humanism and the Hikari-Event: Reading Ōe with Stengers in Catastrophic Times  10. Afterword: Chernobyl’s Past and Fukushima’s Remembered Future