Mushroom Clouds: Ecocritical Approaches to Militarization and the
Environment in East Asia examines the growing significance of the
eco-implications of the increasing militarism of East Asia. As a
transcultural image and metaphor, mushroom clouds signify
anthropogenic violence and destruction, as exemplified by wars and
nuclear bombings. Immediately evoking memories of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, the mushroom clouds metaphor has deep roots and
implications in East Asia, and this volume explores these roots and
implications from the perspectives of a variety of scholars and
artists from different parts of East Asia. The chapters that
comprise Mushroom Clouds respond to the increasingly dangerous
developments in the world that led up to and have occurred since
the 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump, developments that
threaten the stability of the region and the world. In the wake of
the 70th anniversary of the division of Korea, increasing attention
has been focused on the legacy of the Cold War, on the one hand,
and on the continuing militarization of East Asia, on the other.
After the nuclear bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after the
truce across the 38th parallel, after the shelling of Kinmen and
Matsu, East Asia became (and remains) one of the most densely
militarized regions in the world. Under the shadow of war, however,
the concern about environmental impacts has been growing, not only
in social discourse but also in literature and the visual arts. The
first of its kind, Mushroom Clouds gathers ecocritics from East
Asia to examine issues such as militarization, militarized islands,
military tourism, military villages, post-war environments, nuclear
accidents, and the demilitarized sone (DMZ) wildlife, among others,
in East Asia.
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