Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4222681 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt |
| PRENOMES | Kristina |
| SOBRENOME | Iwata-Weickgenannt |
| ASSINATURA | IWATA-WEICKGENANNT K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Nagoya University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4715-1388 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Cultural Catch
This article reads the post-moratorium boom in historical whaling fiction against shifting debates over the legitimacy of Japanese whaling. Taking Itō Jun’s Kyogei no umi (2013) as example, I draw on critical heritage studies and Svetlana Boym’s theory of nostalgia to show how the novel reconstructs Edo-period whaling as a morally coherent, patriarchal community built on self-sacrifice and masculine heroism. In doing so, the novel aligns with cul…
Writing back to the Capitalocene
This article examines representations of food and feeding in post-Fukushima literature. Following the hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, radioactive plumes swept across the country, leading to a sharp increase in radioactivity levels in a range of foodstuffs. Yet the government’s Eat and Support campaign, designed to encourage solidarity with local farmers, failed to address contamination issues, inevitably giving r…
Broken Narratives, Multiple Truths
Against the background of the decades-long international relations dispute over Japan’s wartime military “comfort women” system, this article explores one of the scant literary representations of comfort women in Japanese literature. Through a close reading of Yū Miri’s Hachigatsu no hate (The End of August, 2004), a family saga written by a female author of Korean descent, the article explores how the novel emerged from, participates in, and cri…
The roads to disaster, or rewriting history from the margins—Yū Miri’s JR Ueno Station Park Exit
In Ruth Ozeki’s words, 3.11/Fukushima represents a “rift in time”, which not only split an imagined temporal continuum into before and after, but makes the before appear in a different light. In the present article, Yū Miri’s JR Ueno-eki kōenguchi is read as a literary response to, and expression of, this perceptual shift. Yū’s focus on an exploited migrant worker from rural Fukushima who spends his last years as a homeless in the capital chimes …
Challenging the Myth of Homogeneity
The chapter begins by stating that, despite the presence of immigrant writers in Japan, the term ‘immigrant literature’ is exclusively used to refer to immigrant literatures in foreign countries. In contrast, the literature written by minority authors inside Japan is usually categorised according to the authors’ ethnic origin. The chapter argues that the absence of a generic term pointing to the writers’ migration experience can be related to bot…
Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature
Foreword: Liberty and equality in Japan's unequal society, Suzuki Sadami 1. Towards an introduction: Japan's literature of precarity, Roman Rosenbaum 2. Kirino Natsuo's Metabola, or the Okinawan stage, fractured selves and the precarity of contemporary existence, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt 3. Precarity, kawaii (cuteness), and their impact on environmental discourse in Japan, W. Puck Brecher 4. Part-timer, buy a house. Middle-class precarity, sen…
Precarity discourses in Kirino Natsuo'sMetabola
Often exploring the very margins of society and thus frequently dealing with issues of poverty, oppression, as well as structures of gender and ethnic discrimination, Kirino Natsuo's literature has been labeled ‘neo-proletarian’. This analogy to the leftwing literature of the 1920s and 1930s is, however, clearly misleading. Through a close analysis of exploitation in Metabola, this article shows that contemporary representations of the casualizat…
Count What You Have Now. Don't Count What You Don't Have”
Voted top new Japanese word of 2008, “arafô”, abbreviated from the English “around forty”, has been used in various media to describe women born between 1964 and 1973, who came of age during Japan's Bubble Era, and who entered the workforce as the country's Equal Employment Opportunity Lawwas being implemented in 1986. Arafô, or “forty-something women”, theoretically have more choices in relation to work and family than previous generations. Duri…
Count What You Have Now. Don't Count What You Don't Have”
Voted top new Japanese word of 2008, “arafô”, abbreviated from the English “around forty”, has been used in various media to describe women born between 1964 and 1973, who came of age during Japan's Bubble Era, and who entered the workforce as the country's Equal Employment Opportunity Lawwas being implemented in 1986. Arafô, or “forty-something women”, theoretically have more choices in relation to work and family than previous generations. Duri…
The roads to disaster, or rewriting history from the margins—Yū Miri’s JR Ueno Station Park Exit
In Ruth Ozeki’s words, 3.11/Fukushima represents a “rift in time”, which not only split an imagined temporal continuum into before and after, but makes the before appear in a different light. In the present article, Yū Miri’s JR Ueno-eki kōenguchi is read as a literary response to, and expression of, this perceptual shift. Yū’s focus on an exploited migrant worker from rural Fukushima who spends his last years as a homeless in the capital chimes …
Broken Narratives, Multiple Truths
Against the background of the decades-long international relations dispute over Japan’s wartime military “comfort women” system, this article explores one of the scant literary representations of comfort women in Japanese literature. Through a close reading of Yū Miri’s Hachigatsu no hate (The End of August, 2004), a family saga written by a female author of Korean descent, the article explores how the novel emerged from, participates in, and cri…
Precarity discourses in Kirino Natsuo'sMetabola
Often exploring the very margins of society and thus frequently dealing with issues of poverty, oppression, as well as structures of gender and ethnic discrimination, Kirino Natsuo's literature has been labeled ‘neo-proletarian’. This analogy to the leftwing literature of the 1920s and 1930s is, however, clearly misleading. Through a close analysis of exploitation in Metabola, this article shows that contemporary representations of the casualizat…
Count What You Have Now. Don't Count What You Don't Have”
Voted top new Japanese word of 2008, “arafô”, abbreviated from the English “around forty”, has been used in various media to describe women born between 1964 and 1973, who came of age during Japan's Bubble Era, and who entered the workforce as the country's Equal Employment Opportunity Lawwas being implemented in 1986. Arafô, or “forty-something women”, theoretically have more choices in relation to work and family than previous generations. Duri…
Precarity discourses in Kirino Natsuo'sMetabola
Often exploring the very margins of society and thus frequently dealing with issues of poverty, oppression, as well as structures of gender and ethnic discrimination, Kirino Natsuo's literature has been labeled ‘neo-proletarian’. This analogy to the leftwing literature of the 1920s and 1930s is, however, clearly misleading. Through a close analysis of exploitation in Metabola, this article shows that contemporary representations of the casualizat…
Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature
Foreword: Liberty and equality in Japan's unequal society, Suzuki Sadami 1. Towards an introduction: Japan's literature of precarity, Roman Rosenbaum 2. Kirino Natsuo's Metabola, or the Okinawan stage, fractured selves and the precarity of contemporary existence, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt 3. Precarity, kawaii (cuteness), and their impact on environmental discourse in Japan, W. Puck Brecher 4. Part-timer, buy a house. Middle-class precarity, sen…
Challenging the Myth of Homogeneity
The chapter begins by stating that, despite the presence of immigrant writers in Japan, the term ‘immigrant literature’ is exclusively used to refer to immigrant literatures in foreign countries. In contrast, the literature written by minority authors inside Japan is usually categorised according to the authors’ ethnic origin. The chapter argues that the absence of a generic term pointing to the writers’ migration experience can be related to bot…
The roads to disaster, or rewriting history from the margins—Yū Miri’s JR Ueno Station Park Exit
In Ruth Ozeki’s words, 3.11/Fukushima represents a “rift in time”, which not only split an imagined temporal continuum into before and after, but makes the before appear in a different light. In the present article, Yū Miri’s JR Ueno-eki kōenguchi is read as a literary response to, and expression of, this perceptual shift. Yū’s focus on an exploited migrant worker from rural Fukushima who spends his last years as a homeless in the capital chimes …
Broken Narratives, Multiple Truths
Against the background of the decades-long international relations dispute over Japan’s wartime military “comfort women” system, this article explores one of the scant literary representations of comfort women in Japanese literature. Through a close reading of Yū Miri’s Hachigatsu no hate (The End of August, 2004), a family saga written by a female author of Korean descent, the article explores how the novel emerged from, participates in, and cri…
Writing back to the Capitalocene
This article examines representations of food and feeding in post-Fukushima literature. Following the hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, radioactive plumes swept across the country, leading to a sharp increase in radioactivity levels in a range of foodstuffs. Yet the government’s Eat and Support campaign, designed to encourage solidarity with local farmers, failed to address contamination issues, inevitably giving r…
The Cultural Catch
This article reads the post-moratorium boom in historical whaling fiction against shifting debates over the legitimacy of Japanese whaling. Taking Itō Jun’s Kyogei no umi (2013) as example, I draw on critical heritage studies and Svetlana Boym’s theory of nostalgia to show how the novel reconstructs Edo-period whaling as a morally coherent, patriarchal community built on self-sacrifice and masculine heroism. In doing so, the novel aligns with cul…
Japanese History and Culture (7 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Law (3 obras)