The Writing of Disaster - Literary Representations of War, Trauma and Earthquakes in Modern Japan

Bibliographic Data

ID23558155
AuthorsLeith Morton (0000-0002-2331-1296)
Year2020
Pages274
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWriting of Disaster - Literary Representations of War, Trauma and Earthquakes in Modern Japan (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPeter Lang D (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3726/b16409
OpenAlexW2995830886
Open LibraryOL29491287M
ISBN9783631808306
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited43

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 earthquakes in Japan have almost always focused exclusively on fiction while this volume focuses mainly on poetry. This volume breaks new ground in its attempt to draw together and analyze the literature produced by these tragedies as a single phenomenon. It provides a new template for the literature of trauma produced by such events as the earthquake that accompanied the tsunami and nuclear meltdown in northeast Japan in 2011.

Art · Literature · Seismology · Disaster Management and Resilience · Geology · History · Disasters · Disasters in literature · Earthquakes in literature · History and criticism · Japanese literature · Japanese poetry · Psychic trauma in literature · War in literature

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