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Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster book cover

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Fukushima and the Arts Negotiating Nuclear Disaster

Edited By Barbara Geilhorn, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt Copyright 2017
246 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While much has been written about the social, political, economic, and technical aspects of the disaster, this volume represents one of the first in-depth explorations of the cultural responses to the devastating tsunami, and in particular... Read more
  1. Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Barbara Geilhorn

    2. Negotiating Nuclear Disaster: an Introduction

  2. Rachel DiNitto

    3. Literature Maps Disaster: The Contending Narratives of 3.11 Fiction

  3. Scott Aalgaard

    4. Summertime Blues: Musical Critique in the Aftermaths of Japan’s ‘Dark Spring’

  4. Pablo Figueroa

    5. Subversion and Nostalgia in Art Photography of the Fukushima Disaster

  5. Saeko Kimura

    6. Uncanny Anxiety: Literature after Fukushima

  6. Hideaki Fujiki

    7. Problematizing Life: Documentary Films on the 3.11 Nuclear Catastrophe

  7. Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

    8. Gendering ‘Fukushima’: Resistance, Self-responsibility, and Female Hysteria in Sono Sion’s Land of Hope

  8. Cody Poulton

    9. Antigone in Japan: Life and Death in ‘Fukushima’

  9. Jeffrey Angles

    10. Poetry in an Era of Nuclear Power: Three Poetic Responses to Fukushima

  10. Barbara Geilhorn

    11. Challenging Reality with Fiction: Imagining Alternative Readings of Japanese Society in Post-Fukushima Theatre

  11. Lorie Brau

    12. Oishinbo’s Fukushima Elegy: Grasping for the truth about radioactivity in a food manga

  12. Kyōko Iwaki

The Politics of the Senses: Takayama Akira’s Atomized Theatre after Fukushima


Biography

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 Tokyo
The Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 44, Number 2, Summer 2018

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