Ecocriticism in Japan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world. Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel The Tale of Genji, an early twentieth-century writer Taoka Reiun, the post-WWII atomic bombing literature by women, the internationally-renowned Abe Kobo, the Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo, the world-widely popular writer Murakami Haruki, the Minamata writer Ishimure Michiko, and the anime artist Miyazaki Hayao to the recent TV anime Coppelion, a production that foresaw a devastating nuclear disaster after the Great East Japan Earthquake, this volume extricates and discusses innate, complex values of Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-30
Mått:162 x 239 x 27 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498527842

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Hisaaki Wake is assistant professor of Japanese at the US Air Force Academy.Yuki Masami is professor of human and socio-environmental studies at Kanazawa University. Keijiro Suga is professor at Meiji University.

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Ecocriticism in Japan answers a growing need in Japan studies and contributes to the broader field of environmental studies generally.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Ursula HeiseAcknowledgements Introduction by Yuki MasamiChapter 1: Exploring Ecocritical Perspectives by Juxtaposing The Tale of Genji's "Suma" chapter with Folktales by Marjorie RhineChapter 2: Taoka Reiun and Environmental Thought in the Early 1900s by Ronald Loftus by Chapter 3: Kyoko Matsunaga Radioactive Discourse and Atomic Bomb Texts: Ota Yoko, Sata Ineko, and by Hayashi KyokoChapter 4: Abe Kõbõ in Ecosophy by Toshiya UenoChapter 5: Literary ground opened in fissures: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Oe Kenzaburo's In Late Style by Haga KoichiChapter 6: Oe and the Uses of Ecocritical Affect: Suspicion, Shame and Care after 3.11 by Margherita LongChapter 7: Nature Strikes Back: Human Interaction with Natural Forces in Literary Representations of Disaster by Alex BatesChapter 8: Horses and Ferns: Kaneko Mitsuharu and Furukawa Hideo by Doug SlaymakerChapter 9: Invisible Waves: On Some Japanese Artists After March 11, 2011 by Keijiro SugaChapter 10: From "Suffering"