Ecocriticism in Japan (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Wake, Hisaaki; Masami, Yuki; Suga, Keijiro

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978791008
• Artikelnr.: 74398832

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ursula Heise
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Yuki Masami
Chapter 1: Exploring Ecocritical Perspectives by Juxtaposing The Tale of
Genji's "Suma" chapter with Folktales by Marjorie Rhine
Chapter 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 Kyoko
Chapter 4: Abe Kõbõ in Ecosophy by Toshiya Ueno
Chapter 5: Literary ground opened in fissures: The Great East Japan
Earthquake and Oe Kenzaburo's In Late Style by Haga Koichi
Chapter 6: Oe and the Uses of Ecocritical Affect: Suspicion, Shame and Care
after 3.11 by Margherita Long
Chapter 7: Nature Strikes Back: Human Interaction with Natural Forces in
Literary Representations of Disaster by Alex Bates
Chapter 8: Horses and Ferns: Kaneko Mitsuharu and Furukawa Hideo by Doug
Slaymaker
Chapter 9: Invisible Waves: On Some Japanese Artists After March 11, 2011
by Keijiro Suga
Chapter 10: From "Suffering"