The writing of disaster : literary representations of war, trauma and earthquakes in modern Japan

The writing of disaster literary representations of war, trauma and earthquakes in modern Japan

This book analyzes the literature that emerged from World War II. It also examines the literature that resulted from the two major earthquakes that have struck Japan over the course of over the last hundred years. The small number of volumes previously published examining the literature of war and e...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Morton, Leith, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : Peter Lang [2020]
Series:Neuere Lyrik ; 7.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Literature > Philosophy.
Japan.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009810651506719
Table of Contents:
  • Amid the Frenzied Sea of Fire": The Great Tokyo Earthquake and Literature
  • Writing in Extremis: Wartime TankaPoetry
  • War, Memory, Trauma, Fiction, Truth: Kusaba Sakae at Nomonhan, 1939
  • War in China and the Pacific: Takamura Kōtarō, Kusano Shinpei and the Matinée Poétique
  • Self-Censorship: The Case of Wartime Japanese Poetry
  • "Sturm und Drang" in Tanizaki Junichirō's The MakiokaSisters(1948)
  • The Trauma of the Postcolonial Hybrid: Ōshiro Tatsuhiro and Yuta
  • The 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Literature: Contemporary Poetry Handbook2011-2014
  • Trauma and Catharsis: The 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Traditional Genres of Verse
  • Reflections
  • Bibliography, Notes, Index.

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