Overview

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 Kōbō, the Nobel laureate Ōe Kenzaburō, 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.

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Author:   Hisaaki Wake ,  Keijiro Suga ,  Yuki Masami ,  Alex Bates
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9781498527866

ISBN 10:   1498527868
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   11 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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: Ōta Yōko, Sata Ineko, and by Hayashi Kyōko Chapter 4: Abe Kõbõ in Ecosophy by Toshiya Ueno Chapter 5: Literary ground opened in fissures: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Ōe Kenzaburō's In Late Style by Haga Koichi Chapter 6: Ōe 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"" to ""Compassion"": The World of Ishimure Michiko's Works by Shuji Takazawa Chapter 11: Representation of Nomads in the Works of Ishimure Michiko by Daisuke Higuchi Chapter 12: On the Ideological Manipulation of Nature in Japanese Popular Culture: Miyazaki, Hyakuta, Ishimure by Hisaaki Wake Chapter 13: A Chaosmos of Condivision: Radiation Aesthetics in the TV Anime Series Coppelion (2013) by Livia Monnet Chapter 14: Arboreal Unicorns and Other Megaflora: On Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s film Charisma by Christine Marran About the Contributors Index"

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Ecocriticism in Japan answers a growing need in Japan studies and contributes to the broader field of environmental studies generally.-- The Journal of Japanese Studies

Ecocriticism in Japan answers a growing need in Japan studies and contributes to the broader field of environmental studies generally.--The Journal of Japanese Studies

Author Information

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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