Ecocriticism in Japan

Herausgeber: Masami, Yuki; Wake, Hisaaki; Suga, Keijiro

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Produktbeschreibung

Ecocriticism in Japan provides an answer to the question, "What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture?" Engaging works ranging from The Tale of Genji to Abe, ¿e, Ishimure, and Miyazaki, this volume examines works Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.

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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781498527842
• ISBN-10: 1498527841
• Artikelnr.: 49459524

Autorenporträt

Hisaaki Wake is assistant professor of Japanese at the US Air Force Academy. Yuki Masami is professor of human and socio-environmental studies at Kanazawa University. Keijiro Suga is professor at Meiji University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ursula Heise Acknowledgements Introduction by Yuki Masami Chapter 1: Exploring Ecocritical Perspectives by Juxtaposing The Tale of Genji's "Suma" chapter with Folktales by Marjorie Rhine Chapter 2: Taoka Reiun and Environmental Thought in the Early 1900s by Ronald Loftus by Chapter 3: Kyoko Matsunaga Radioactive Discourse and Atomic Bomb Texts:
ta Y
ko, Sata Ineko, and by Hayashi Ky
ko Chapter 4: Abe Kõbõ in Ecosophy by Toshiya Ueno Chapter 5: Literary ground opened in fissures: The Great East Japan Earthquake and
e Kenzabur
's In Late Style by Haga Koichi Chapter 6:
e and the Uses of Ecocritical Affect: Suspicion, Shame and Care after 3.11 by Margherita Long Chapter 7: Nature Strikes Back: Human Interaction with Natural Forces in Literary Representations of Disaster by Alex Bates Chapter 8: Horses and Ferns: Kaneko Mitsuharu and Furukawa Hideo by Doug Slaymaker Chapter 9: Invisible Waves: On Some Japanese Artists After March 11, 2011 by Keijiro Suga Chapter 10: From "Suffering" to "Compassion": The World of Ishimure Michiko's Works by Shuji Takazawa Chapter 11: Representation of Nomads in the Works of Ishimure Michiko by Daisuke Higuchi Chapter 12: On the Ideological Manipulation of Nature in Japanese Popular Culture: Miyazaki, Hyakuta, Ishimure by Hisaaki Wake Chapter 13: A Chaosmos of Condivision: Radiation Aesthetics in the TV Anime Series Coppelion (2013) by Livia Monnet Chapter 14: Arboreal Unicorns and Other Megaflora: On Kurosawa Kiyoshi's film Charisma by Christine Marran About the Contributors Index