Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective

Between Sea and Sky
Herausgeber: Allen, Bruce; Masami, Yuki

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of ecocritical essays focuses on the work of Ishimure Michiko, Japan's foremost writer on the environment and culture. It discusses Ishimure's writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, with particular reference to environmental problems in Minamata and Fukushima, and argues for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility.

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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780739194225
• ISBN-10: 0739194224
• Artikelnr.: 43896262

Autorenporträt

Edited by Bruce Allen and Yuki Masami - Contributions by Ikezawa Natsuki; Iwaoka Nakamasa; Christine Marran; Livia Monnet; Patrick D. Murphy; Karen Thornber; Toyosato Mayumi and Watanabe Kyoji

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Bruce Allen and Yuki Masami Chapter 1: The World of Kugai J
do Watanabe Ky
ji Chapter 2: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea Ikezawa Natsuki Chapter 3: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko's Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident Yuki Masami Chapter 4: Mapping Modernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko's Kugai J
do Toyosato Mayumi Chapter 5: Literature Without Us Christine Marran Chapter 6: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker Iwaoka Nakamasa Chapter 7: Atonement and At-one-ment: From Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven Patrick Murphy Chapter 8: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism Karen Thornber Chapter 9: Another World in This World: Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods Livia Monnet Chapter 10: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko Bruce Allen Chapter 11: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Play A Translation by Aihara Yuko and Bruce Allen About the Editors and Contributors