TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mihic, Tamaki
AB  - "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."
DO  - 10.22459/RJF.2020
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37220
ID  - OAPEN ID: 45109
KW  - Fukushima
KW  - natural disaster
KW  - nuclear disaster
KW  - Japan
KW  - literary studies
KW  - popular culture
KW  - cultural studies
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37220/1/reimagining%20japan.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36420
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2020
SN  - 9781760463540
TI  - Re-imagining Japan after Fukushimanull
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