Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster 9780824879457

Fukushima Fiction introduces readers to the powerful literary works that have emerged out of Japan’s triple disaster, no

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Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Disaster Strikes, Literature Responds
1. Voices from the Debris: Cultural Trauma and Disaster Fiction
2. Tohoku on the Margins: Furukawa Hideo’s Horses
3. Hiroshima Encore: Return of the Hibakusha
4. Chernobyl and Beyond: A New Era of Nuclear Literature
Epilogue: Writing toward the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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