Ecocriticism in Japan by Hisaaki Wake, Keijiro Suga, Yuki Mas... - 9781498527866

Ecocriticism in JapanAuthor(s): Hisaaki Wake, Keijiro Suga, Yuki Masami, Alex Bates, Koichi Haga, Ursula Heise, Daisuke Higuchi, Ronald Loftus, Margherita Long, Christine Marran\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498527866, 978-1498527866\nSynopsis\nWhat can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world. Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel The Tale of Genji, an early twentieth-century writer Taoka Reiun, the post-WWII atomic bombing literature by women, the internationally-renowned Abe Kobo, the Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo, the world-widely popular writer Murakami Haruki, the Minamata writer Ishimure Michiko, and the an.