Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age

Literature, Film, and Performance from Germany and Japan
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-63023-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Reihe: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

This groundbreaking volume explores new artistic forms that emerged in German-speaking Europe and Japan in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. Considering the cultural specificity of post-3.11 literature, poetry, theater, and film, while also attending to moments of crossing, hybridity, and transference, offers a critical model for examining the intertwining of transnational connection and ecological contamination in a global present marked by  renewed nuclear threat. Bringing together incisive readings by eminent scholars of Germany and Japan as well as a newly translated work by Yoko Tawada, the volume offers a comparative humanities approach that is essential for reframing debates about environmental crisis and nuclear risk.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mason, Michele M.

Baer, Hester

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.-Nuclear Futures: Intertwined Histories and Imaginative Visions in Post-Fukushima Japan and Germany.-From Half-Lives to Eternal Life: On Contamination and Isolation in Yoko Tawada’s Post-3.11 Eco Texts .-Animal BabelThe Fractured Looking-glass: 20th-Century History in Post-Meltdown Japanese Theater

Our Fukushima, Our Earth: Nuclear Protest Poetry Following Fukushima

Fission, Food, and Family: Alina Bronsky’s and the Possibility of “Bad Environmental” Narrative .-Slow Violence in Japan’s Nuclear Future: Kirino Natsuo’s Of Culture and Contamination: Adolf Muschg’s (2018).-Filming the Phantasms of Fukushima: Relationality and Repair in Doris Dörrie’s (2016) .-Quantum Narratives and Zen Moments: Thinking Nuclear Pasts and Futures .-Epilogue .-

Über Autor(innen)

Hester Baer is Professor of German and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research and teaching focus on German literature and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, film history, feminist media studies, and environmental humanities. Her recent publications include the monograph (2021) and the edited volume (2024). She currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of .

Michele M. Mason is an Associate Professor of Japanese literary and cultural studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, whose works include and and. She has dedicated herself to anti-nuclear studies, education, and activism, which is embodied in her co-produced short documentary film entitled  (2008) and a monograph in progress on the legacy of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.