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Fukushima Fiction - The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster (Paperback)
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Fukushima Fiction - The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster (Paperback)
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Fukushima Fiction introduces readers to the powerful literary works
that have emerged out of Japan's triple disaster, now known as
3/11. The book provides a broad and nuanced picture of the varied
literary responses to this ongoing tragedy, focusing on ""serious
fiction"" (junbungaku), the one area of Japanese cultural
production that has consistently addressed the disaster and its
aftermath. Examining short stories and novels by both new and
established writers, author Rachel DiNitto effectively captures
this literary tide and names it after the nuclear accident that
turned a natural disaster into an environmental and political
catastrophe. The book takes a spatial approach to a new literary
landscape, tracing Fukushima fiction thematically from depictions
of the local experience of victims on the ground, through the
regional and national conceptualizations of the disaster, to
considerations of the disaster as history, and last to the global
concerns common to nuclear incidents worldwide. Throughout, DiNitto
shows how fiction writers played an important role in turning the
disaster into a narrative of trauma that speaks to a broad
readership within and outside Japan. Although the book examines
fiction about all three of the disasters - earthquake, tsunami, and
nuclear meltdowns - DiNitto contends that Fukushima fiction reaches
its critical potential as a literature of nuclear resistance. She
articulates the stakes involved, arguing that serious fiction
provides the critical voice necessary to combat the government and
nuclear industry's attempts to move the disaster off the headlines
as the 2020 Olympics approach and Japan restarts its idle nuclear
power plants. Rigorous and sophisticated yet highly readable and
relevant for a broad audience, Fukushima Fiction is a critical
intervention of humanities scholarship into the growing field of
Fukushima studies. The work pushes readers to understand the
disaster as a global crisis and to see the importance of literature
as a critical medium in a media-saturated world. By engaging with
other disasters - from 9/11 to Chernobyl to Hurricane Katrina -
DiNitto brings Japan's local and national tragedy to the attention
of a global audience, evocatively conveying fiction's power to
imagine the unimaginable and the unforeseen.
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