The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11th March 2011 have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While much has been written about social, political, economic, and technical aspects of the disaster, this volume represents the first in-depth exploration of cultural responses to the devastating tsunami, and in particular the ongoing nuclear disaster of Fukushima. It analyses examples from literature, poetry, manga, theatre, art photography, documentary and fiction film, and popular music. By scrutinizing various media narratives and taking into account national and local perspectives, it sheds light on cultural texts of power, politics, and space.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
