The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032376356 / Twarda / 2023 / 216 str.

Opis

This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English.

Spis treści

1. Corona Narratives as Return and a Reminder: An Introduction  2. Corona Diaries and the "Boring Apocalypse" in Japan  3. Of Miracles and Mourning: Reading COVID-19 Environmentally in Uchidate Makiko and Itō Seikō  4. Marginalizing Body and Space in Kanehara Hitomi’s COVID-19 Literature  5. Senses and Emotions: Post COVID-19 Imaginations in Japanese Science Fiction  6. Open Becoming: A Disabled VTuber and Her Community in the Era of COVID-19  7. Narrating the Nation in a Global Crisis: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Japanese Morning Drama (Asadora)  8. Turning the Page: Reading Manga in the Pandemic Age  9. Pandemic and Mass Media: The Amabie Boom as Counterculture  10. Novelvirus Viral Novels and the Irony Poisoning of Social Media Engagement  11. Writing in the New Age of Pandemics

O autorze

Mina Qiao teaches Japanese literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her recent publications include Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature (2022, Lexington).