TY  - GEN
AU  - Mihic,Tamaki
TI  - Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima
SN  - RJF.2020
PY  - 2020///
PB  - ANU Press
KW  - Japan
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Social impact of disasters
KW  - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
KW  - Fukushima
KW  - natural disaster
KW  - nuclear disaster
KW  - literary studies
KW  - popular culture
KW  - cultural studies
N1  - Open Access
N2  - "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster (collectively referred to as ‘3.11’, the date of the earthquake), had a lasting impact on Japan’s identity and global image. In its immediate aftermath, mainstream media presented the country as a disciplined, resilient and composed nation, united in the face of a natural disaster. However, 3.11 also drew worldwide attention to the negative aspects of Japanese government and society, thought to have caused the unresolved situation at Fukushima.    Spurred by heightened emotions following the triple disaster, the Japanese became increasingly polarised between these two views of how to represent themselves. How did literature and popular culture respond to this dilemma? Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima attempts to answer that question by analysing how Japan was portrayed in post-3.11 fiction. Texts are selected from the Japanese, English and French languages, and the portrayals are also compared with those from non-fiction discourse. This book argues that cultural responses to 3.11 had a significant role to play in re-imagining Japan after Fukushima."
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37220/1/reimagining%20japan.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36420
ER  -