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Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective
Between Sea and Sky
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2015
Summary
This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many critics as Japan’s most original and important literary writer. Ishimure has written over 50 volumes in a wide range of genres, including novels, Noh drama, poetry, children’s stories, essays, and mixed-genre writing. This collection brings together the work of scholars from Japan, the U.S., and Canada who are authorities on Ishimure’s writing. Contributors discuss Ishimure’s writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, arguing for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility. It will help to relate various environmental, cultural, and ecocritical issues, ranging from the events at Minamata to those at Fukushima, and consider how they point to future developments.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-9422-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-9423-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
205
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter One: The World of Kugai jōdo No access Pages 11 - 26
Chapter Two: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea No access Pages 27 - 40
Chapter Three: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko’s Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident No access Pages 41 - 56
Chapter Four: Mapping Nonmodernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko’s Kugai jōdo No access Pages 57 - 74
Chapter Five: Literature Without Us No access Pages 75 - 88
Chapter Six: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker No access Pages 89 - 104
Chapter Seven: Atonement and At-One-Ment from The Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven No access Pages 105 - 122
Chapter Eight: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism No access Pages 123 - 142
Chapter Nine: “Another World in this World”: Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko’s Villages of the Gods No access Pages 143 - 172
Chapter Ten: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko No access Pages 173 - 188
Chapter Eleven: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Drama No access Pages 189 - 198
Index No access Pages 199 - 202
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 203 - 205
