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This book explores how the tremendous earthquake on March 11, 2011 impacted literary authors in Japan and generated issues and perspectives previously unrecognized in Japanese literary and social culture. The disaster itself caused an earthquake, tsunami, and an nuclear accident, and provided the grounds for "post 3/11" literature in Japan.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Overview of Post 3.11 Cultural Production
Part I: The Immediate Impact of the 3.11 Disaster on the Writers' Consciousness
Chapter One. Ecological Time-Space Emerging from the Encounter with the 3.11
Earthquake and Tsunami: The first phase of Post 3.11 literary production
Chapter Two. Fissures Opened in Literary Ground: The Great East Japan Earthquake and
Kenzabur¿ ¿e's In Late Style
Chapter Three. Animal Agencies in Post-3.11 Literature
Part II: Acceleration of the Writers' Ecological Consciousness
Chapter Four. Remembrance of Postcolonial Conditions-The Earthquake's Disclosure
of Uncommon Ground: T¿hoku Area as the Other Within
Chapter Five. Dystopian Novels Flourish in the Post-3.11 Period
Chapter Six. The Emergence of a Planetary Sense Through Geographic Catastrophe
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Koichi Haga is associate professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at Josai International University in Japan.
