Ecocriticism in Japan.

Cover -- Ecocriticism in Japan -- Ecocriticism in Japan -- Contents -- Foreword to Ecocriticism in Japan -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Trouble With Harmony -- The Ecological Turn In A Discourse Of Harmony, Or Is It? -- Essays In This Collection -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1 -- Walking the Walk -- Reading The Suma Chapters Of -- Exile As Immersion In Ecoscape -- Echoes Of Sacred Snakes And Silkworm Economy In A Ribald Folktale -- Walking The Path Toward Praxis -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 -- Taoka Reiun and Environmental Thought in the Early 1900s -- A Philosophical Foundation For Taoka Reiun's Ecocriticism -- Reiun And The Turn Against Modernity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 -- Radioactive Discourse and Atomic Bomb Texts -- Radioactive Discourse: A Living Literary Form -- YŌko's -- "unknown" Effects Of The "internal Enemy" -- Hayashi KyŌko's "human Experience Over Time": "proving" Radioactive Anxiety -- Sata Ineko's -- Diversity -- The Possibilities Of Radioactive Discourse After Fukushima -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 -- Abe Kōbō in Ecosophy -- Abe And Guattari: Nature As Machinic Assemblages -- The Woman In The Dunes/man In The Sea And Machines -- Unnatural Participation/nuptial -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 -- Literary Ground Opened in Fissures -- The Great East Japan Earthquake -- KenzaburŌ's Eco-literal Awareness -- Transmutation Of Natural Disaster -- Polyphonic Openness Emerged Through The Cracks In The Narrative Ground -- The Main Shock And Three Aftershocks -- The First Aftershock -- The Second Aftershock -- The Third Aftershock -- Polyphony Of "the Wonder Of The Forest" -- From "i" To "we" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 -- Ecopolitics and Affect Theory in -- Post-Fukushima Activism -- Justified Paranoia: The Past And Future Of Japan's Nuclear Program.

The Speech At Yoyogi Park: A Failure To Exceed Contempt -- Reclaiming The Affective Promise Of Shame: The Postwar Constitution And -- Primal Scene -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 -- Nature and Disaster in Murakami Haruki's -- Murakami Haruki's -- Nature And The Environment In Murakami's -- "super-frog Saves Tokyo" -- "all God's Children Can Dance" -- "nature" As Agent -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 -- Horses and Ferns -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 -- Invisible Waves -- Invisible Waves -- Hatakeyama Naoya: On The River And The Land -- Takayama Akira: What About Animals? -- Kimura Yusuke And Shinnami Kyosuke: Being Connected To The Land -- Katagiri Atsunobu: The Meaning Of Flowers -- Okabe Masao: On The Surface Of Things -- Myself: The Scarecrow God -- Note -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10 -- From &lt -- Passion&gt -- to &lt -- Compassion&gt -- -- Translator's Introduction -- Section Two: Toward Tonton Village, Where Drums Resound -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 -- Representations of Nomads in the Works of Ishimure Michiko -- Ishimure Michiko And Displaced Nomadic People -- The Empathic Gaze Of "kugai JŌdo" -- Transposition Of The Nomadic Figures " -- And " -- In The Historical Context -- Wandering Beggars -- A Homonym For "sea Of Sorrow" And "public Space" -- " -- And Other Nomadic Figures In Ishimure's Autobiographical Writings -- Affinity With Nature And A Fear Of Human Society -- Conclusion: From The Sea Of Suffering To A Public Space For Nomadic People -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12 -- On the Ideological Manipulation of Nature Inherent in Japanese Popular Culture -- Miyazaki: Contradictions Between Tech-fetishism And Environmental Consciousness -- Ishimure And Hyakuta: Between Reality And Fabrication -- The Will To Change -- Conclusion: Truth And The Real -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 13.

A Chaosmos of Condivision -- The Story -- Nuclear Ecosophy -- Radiation Aesthetics -- The Coppelions' Immunity To Radiation And The (trans)national/global Nuclear Order -- The Nuclear Machinic Unconscious -- Coda: A Chaosmos Of Condivision -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14 -- Arboreal Unicorns and Other Megaflora -- Biotropes: The Flowering Pear -- Charismatic Megaflora: The Golden Spruce -- Arboreal Agency: Charisma -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Ecocriticism in Japan provides an answer to the question, "What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture?" Engaging works ranging from The Tale of Genji to Abe, Ōe, Ishimure, and Miyazaki, this volume examines works Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.

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