The earth writes : the great earthquake and the novel in post-3/11 Japan / Koichi Haga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haga, Kōichi, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Japanese fiction.

Earthquakes in literature.

Climatic changes in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 129 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]

Contents:

Part I The Immediate Impact of the 3/11. Disaster on the Writers' Consciousness

1 Ecological Time-Space Emerging from the Encounter with the 3/11 Earthquake and Tsunami p. 3

2 Fissures Opened in Literary Ground: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Kenzaburo Oe's In Late Style p. 19

3 Animal Agencies in Post-3/11 Literature p. 35

Part II Acceleration of the Writers' Ecological Consciousness

4 Remembrance of Postcolonial Conditions-The Earthquake's Disclosure of Uncommon Ground: Tohoku Area as the Other Within p. 57

5 Dystopian Novels Flourish in the Post-3/11 Period p. 81

6 The Emergence of a Planetary Sense Through Geographic Catastrophe p. 101.

ISBN:

149856903X

9781498569033

OCLC:

1057295901