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Informationen zum Autor Bruce Allen is professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Seisen University, Tokyo.Yuki Masami is professor at Kanazawa University where she teaches environmental literature and English as a foreign language. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Bruce Allen and Yuki MasamiChapter 1: The World of Kugai J¿do Watanabe Ky¿jiChapter 2: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea Ikezawa NatsukiChapter 3: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko's Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident Yuki MasamiChapter 4: Mapping Modernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko's Kugai J¿do Toyosato MayumiChapter 5: Literature Without Us Christine MarranChapter 6: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker Iwaoka NakamasaChapter 7: Atonement and At-one-ment: From Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven Patrick MurphyChapter 8: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism Karen ThornberChapter 9: Another World in This World: Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods Livia MonnetChapter 10: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko Bruce AllenChapter 11: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Play A Translation by Aihara Yuko and Bruce AllenAbout the Editors and Contributors
