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Ishimure Michiko's writing in ecocritical perspective : between sea and sky / Bruce Allen and Yuki Masami ; contributors, Ikezawa Natsuki [and seven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Bruce, 1949- author.
- Yūki, Masami, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Ecocritical theory and practice.
- Ecocritical Theory and Practice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecocriticism.
- Ishimure, Michiko, 1927-2018--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ishimure, Michiko.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of ecocritical essays focuses on the work of Ishimure Michiko, Japan's foremost writer on the environment and culture. It discusses Ishimure's writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, with particular reference to environmental problems in Minamata and Fukushima, and argues for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The World of Kugai jōdo
- Chapter Two: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea
- Chapter Three: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko's Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident
- Chapter Four: Mapping Nonmodernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko's Kugai jōdo
- Chapter Five: Literature Without Us
- Chapter Six: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker
- Chapter Seven: Atonement and At-One-Ment from The Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven
- Chapter Eight: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism
- Chapter Nine: "Another World in this World": Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods
- Chapter Ten: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko
- Chapter Eleven: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Drama
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-22619-2
- 0-7391-9423-2
- OCLC:
- 934998378
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