Fukushima and the arts : negotiating nuclear disaster / edited by Barbara Geilhorn and Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geilhorn, Barbara, editor.

Iwata-Weickgenannt, Kristina, editor.

Series:

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 63.

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Heisei period, 1989---History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011, in literature.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (Japan : 2011) in literature.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011, in motion pictures.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (Japan : 2011) in motion pictures.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011--Influence.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Japanese literature--Heisei period.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the March 11, 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While much has been written about the social, political, economic, and technical aspects of the disaster, this volume represents one of the first in-depth explorations of the cultural responses devastating tsunami, and in particular the ongoing nuclear disaster of Fukushima. This book explores a wide range of cultural responses to the Fukushima nuclear calamity by analyzing examples from literature, poetry, manga, theatre, art photography, documentary and fiction film, and popular music. Individual chapters examine the changing positionality of post-3.11 northeastern Japan and the fear-driven conflation of time and space in near-but-far urban centers; explore the political subversion and nostalgia surrounding the Fukushima disaster; expose the ambiguous effects of highly gendered representations of fear of nuclear threat; analyze the musical and poetic responses to disaster; and explore the political potentialities of theatrical performances. By scrutinizing various media narratives and taking into account national and local perspectives, the book sheds light on cultural text of power, politics, and space. Providing an insight into the post-disaster Zeitgeist as expressed through a variety of media genres, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Japanese Culture, Popular Culture, and Literature Studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Negotiating nuclear disaster : an introduction / Kristina Iiwata-Weickgenannt and Barbara Geilhorn

Literature maps disaster : the contending narratives of 3.11 fiction / Rachel Dinitto

Summertime blues : musical critique in the aftermaths of Japan's "dark spring" / Scott Aalgard

Subversion and nostalgia in art photography of the Fukushima Disaster / Pablo Figueroa

Uncanny anxiety : literature after Fukushima / Saeko Kimura

Problematizing life : documentary films on the 3.11 Nuclear Catastrophe / Hideaki Fujiki

Gendering "Fukushima" : resistance, self-responsibility, and female hysteria in Sono Sion's Land of hope / Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

Antigone in Japan : Life and Death in "Fukushima" / Cody Poulton

Poetry in an era of nuclear power : three poetic responses to Fukushima / Jeffrey Angles

Challenging reality with fiction : imagining alternative readings of Japanese society in Post-Fukushima theatre / Barbara Geilhorn

Oishinbo's Fukushima elegy : grasping for the truth about radioactivity in a food manga / Lorie Brau.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138670587

1138670588

OCLC:

950519277

Publisher Number:

40026393523