[KineJapan] ’Fukushima’ and the Arts

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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. The book is now available for purchase at: 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=DQIF_w&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=uyU9_r3uXMZuE2VS_7GQeYtVw3Y88GsBdXem0CrKX08&s=Fp5XamFXTeRuycHz0r1GaoFtETpGwhD-tLSU-Sv0RNU&e= 

Kind regards,
Barbara Geilhorn and Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt



Fukushima and the Arts
Negotiating Nuclear Disaster
Edited by Barbara Geilhorn, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

© 2017 – Routledge

230 pages | 13 B/W Illus.


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.
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.
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.


Table of Contents

Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Barbara Geilhorn
Negotiating Nuclear Disaster: an Introduction

Rachel DiNitto
Literature Maps Disaster: The Contending Narratives of 3.11 Fiction

Scott Aalgaard
Summertime Blues: Musical Critique in the Aftermaths of Japan’s ‘Dark Spring’

Pablo Figueroa
Subversion and Nostalgia in Art Photography of the Fukushima Disaster

Saeko Kimura
Uncanny Anxiety: Literature after Fukushima

Hideaki Fujiki
Problematizing Life: Documentary Films on the 3.11 Nuclear Catastrophe

Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Gendering ‘Fukushima’: Resistance, Self-responsibility, and Female Hysteria in Sono Sion’s Land of Hope

Cody Poulton
Antigone in Japan: Life and Death in ‘Fukushima’

Jeffrey Angles
Poetry in an Era of Nuclear Power: Three Poetic Responses to Fukushima

Barbara Geilhorn
Challenging Reality with Fiction: Imagining Alternative Readings of Japanese Society in Post-Fukushima Theatre

Lorie Brau
Oishinbo’s Fukushima Elegy: Grasping for the truth about radioactivity in a food manga

Kyōko Iwaki
The Politics of the Senses: Takayama Akira’s Atomized Theatre after Fukushima


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Barbara Geilhorn, Ph.D.
Visiting Research Fellow (Humboldt Foundation)
International Research Center »Interweaving Performance Cultures«
Freie Universität Berlin
Grunewaldstraße 34, 12165 Berlin

barbara.geilhorn at fu-berlin.de
Tel.: +49 (0)30  838 51920

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