The writing of disaster : literary representations of war, trauma and earthquakes in modern Japan / Leith Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Leith, author.

Series:

Neuere Lyrik ; 7.

Neuere Lyrik ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Peter Lang, [2020]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

This book analyzes the literature that emerged from World War II. It also examines the literature that resulted from the two major earthquakes that have struck Japan over the course of over the last hundred years. The small number of volumes previously published examining the literature of war and earthquakes in Japan have almost always focused exclusively on fiction while this volume focuses mainly on poetry. This volume breaks new ground in its attempt to draw together and analyze the literature produced by these tragedies as a single phenomenon. It provides a new template for the literature of trauma produced by such events as the earthquake that accompanied the tsunami and nuclear meltdown in northeast Japan in 2011.

Contents:

Amid the Frenzied Sea of Fire": The Great Tokyo Earthquake and Literature

Writing in Extremis: Wartime TankaPoetry

War, Memory, Trauma, Fiction, Truth: Kusaba Sakae at Nomonhan, 1939

War in China and the Pacific: Takamura Kōtarō, Kusano Shinpei and the Matinée Poétique

Self-Censorship: The Case of Wartime Japanese Poetry

"Sturm und Drang" in Tanizaki Junichirō's The MakiokaSisters(1948)

The Trauma of the Postcolonial Hybrid: Ōshiro Tatsuhiro and Yuta

The 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Literature: Contemporary Poetry Handbook2011-2014

Trauma and Catharsis: The 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Traditional Genres of Verse

Reflections

Bibliography, Notes, Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-631-80830-5

3-631-80829-1