Fukushima and the Arts

Barbara Geilhorn is a JSPS-postdoctoral fellow based at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Her publications include Enacting Culture: Japanese Theater in Historical and Modern Contexts, co-edited with Eike Grossmann (iudicium, 2012).Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt is an Associate Professor of Japanese modern literature at Nagoya University, Japan. Her recent publications include Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature, co-edited with Roman Rosenbaum (Routledge 2015).

'Fukushima and the Arts provides a fascinating view onto the manifold ways in which artists from different genres have dealt with the triple catastrophe of March 11, 2011, while at the same time also showing similarities in their responses.'Reviewed by Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies TokyoThe Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 44, Number 2, Summer 2018

• Negotiating Nuclear Disaster: an Introduction Literature Maps Disaster: The Contending Narratives of 3.11 Fiction Summertime Blues: Musical Critique in the Aftermaths of Japan’s ‘Dark Spring’ Subversion and Nostalgia in Art Photography of the Fukushima Disaster Uncanny Anxiety: Literature after Fukushima Problematizing Life: Documentary Films on the 3.11 Nuclear Catastrophe Gendering ‘Fukushima’: Resistance, Self-responsibility, and Female Hysteria in Sono Sion’s Land of Hope Antigone in Japan: Life and Death in ‘Fukushima’ Poetry in an Era of Nuclear Power: Three Poetic Responses to Fukushima Challenging Reality with Fiction: Imagining Alternative Readings of Japanese Society in Post-Fukushima Theatre Oishinbo’s Fukushima Elegy: Grasping for the truth about radioactivity in a food manga The Politics of the Senses: Takayama Akira’s Atomized Theatre after Fukushima