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<div>Maria Roemer</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Dear List members,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">We would like to announce the publication of our book „Fukushima and the Arts“ (Routledge). Please find the blurb and table of contents at the end of this e-mail. </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">The book is now available for purchase at: </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.routledge.com_Fukushima-2Dand-2Dthe-2DArts-2DNegotiating-2DNuclear-2DDisaster_Geilhorn-2DIwata-2DWeickgenannt_p_book_9781138670587&d=DQMBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=_4qHBNRVuHeJk8N2kFl4YnzXVwXALt3BAj3TetdNbNc&s=F-CwWWNtsdGDzUYJJyzNu6DITgl0TXPZdW2qPfxfo58&e=" target="_blank"><span>https://www.routledge.com/Fukushima-and-the-Arts-Negotiating-Nuclear-Disaster/Geilhorn-Iwata-Weickgenannt/p/book/9781138670587</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Kind regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Barbara Geilhorn and Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;color: black;">Fukushima and the Arts</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;color: black;">Negotiating Nuclear Disaster</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Edited by Barbara Geilhorn, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">© 2017 – Routledge</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">230 pages | 13 B/W Illus.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: rgb(38,38,38);">The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While much has been written about the social, political, economic, and technical aspects of the disaster, this volume represents one of the first in-depth explorations of the cultural responses to the devastating tsunami, and in particular the ongoing nuclear disaster of Fukushima.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: rgb(38,38,38);">This book explores a wide range of cultural responses to the Fukushima nuclear calamity by analyzing examples from literature, poetry, manga, theatre, art photography, documentary and fiction film, and popular music. Individual chapters examine the changing positionality of post-3.11 northeastern Japan and the fear-driven conflation of time and space in near-but-far urban centers; explore the political subversion and nostalgia surrounding the Fukushima disaster; expose the ambiguous effects of highly gendered representations of fear of nuclear threat; analyze the musical and poetic responses to disaster; and explore the political potentialities of theatrical performances. By scrutinizing various media narratives and taking into account national and local perspectives, the book sheds light on cultural texts of power, politics, and space.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: rgb(38,38,38);">Providing an insight into the post-disaster Zeitgeist as expressed through a variety of media genres, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Japanese Culture, Popular Culture, and Literature Studies.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;color: black;">Table of Contents</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Barbara Geilhorn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Negotiating Nuclear Disaster: an Introduction</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Rachel DiNitto</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Literature Maps Disaster: The Contending Narratives of 3.11 Fiction</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Scott Aalgaard</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Summertime Blues: Musical Critique in the Aftermaths of Japan’s ‘Dark Spring’</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Pablo Figueroa</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Subversion and Nostalgia in Art Photography of the Fukushima Disaster</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Saeko Kimura</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Uncanny Anxiety: Literature after Fukushima</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Hideaki Fujiki</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Problematizing Life: Documentary Films on the 3.11 Nuclear Catastrophe</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Gendering ‘Fukushima’: Resistance, Self-responsibility, and Female Hysteria in Sono Sion’s Land of Hope</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Cody Poulton</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Antigone in Japan: Life and Death in ‘Fukushima’</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Jeffrey Angles</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Poetry in an Era of Nuclear Power: Three Poetic Responses to Fukushima</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Barbara Geilhorn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Challenging Reality with Fiction: Imagining Alternative Readings of Japanese Society in Post-Fukushima Theatre</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Lorie Brau</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Oishinbo’s Fukushima Elegy: Grasping for the truth about radioactivity in a food manga</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">Kyōko Iwaki</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;color: black;">The Politics of the Senses: Takayama Akira’s Atomized Theatre after Fukushima</span></p>
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Barbara Geilhorn, Ph.D. <br/>
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