Geilhorn / Iwata-Weickgenannt Fukushima and the Arts

Negotiating Nuclear Disaster
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-20838-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11th March 2011, or 3.11, 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 one of the first in-depth exploration of cultural responses to the devastating tsunami, and in particular the ongoing nuclear disaster of Fukushima.

This book explores a wide range of cultural responses to the Fukushima nuclear calamity by analysing examples from literature, poetry, manga, theatre, art photography, documentary and fiction film, and popular music. Individual chapters examine the changing positionality of post-3.11 North-eastern Japan and the fear-driven conflation of time and space in near-but-far urban centres; explore political subversion and nostalgia surrounding the Fukushima disaster; expose the ambiguous effects of highly gendered representations of fear of nuclear threat; analyse musical and poetic responses to disaster; and explore the political potentialities of theatrical performances. By scrutinizing various media narratives and taking into account national and local perspectives, the book sheds light on cultural texts of power, politics, and space.

Providing an insight into the post-disaster Zeitgeist as expressed through a variety of media genres, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Japanese Culture, Popular Culture and Literature Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geilhorn, Barbara

Iwata-Weickgenannt, Kristina

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Barbara Geilhorn

Negotiating Nuclear Disaster: an Introduction

- Rachel DiNitto

Literature Maps Disaster: The Contending Narratives of 3.11 Fiction

- Scott Aalgaard

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

- Pablo Figueroa

Subversion and Nostalgia in Art Photography of the Fukushima Disaster

- Saeko Kimura

Uncanny Anxiety: Literature after Fukushima

- Hideaki Fujiki

Problematizing Life: Documentary Films on the 3.11 Nuclear Catastrophe

- Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

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

- Cody Poulton

Antigone in Japan: Life and Death in ‘Fukushima’

- Jeffrey Angles

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

- Barbara Geilhorn

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

- Lorie Brau

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

- Kyoko Iwaki

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 (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).