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Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective : Between Sea and Sky.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ecocritical Theory and Practice SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739194232
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical PerspectiveDDC classification:
  • 895.63/5
LOC classification:
  • PL853.S535Z67 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The World of Kugai jōdo -- Chapter Two: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea -- Chapter Three: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko's Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident -- Chapter Four: Mapping Nonmodernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko's Kugai jōdo -- Chapter Five: Literature Without Us -- Chapter Six: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker -- Chapter Seven: Atonement and At-One-Ment from The Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven -- Chapter Eight: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism -- Chapter Nine: "Another World in this World": Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods -- Chapter Ten: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko -- Chapter Eleven: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Drama -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
Summary: This collection of ecocritical essays focuses on the work of Ishimure Michiko, Japan's foremost writer on the environment and culture. It discusses Ishimure's writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, with particular reference to environmental problems in Minamata and Fukushima, and argues for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The World of Kugai jōdo -- Chapter Two: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea -- Chapter Three: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko's Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident -- Chapter Four: Mapping Nonmodernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko's Kugai jōdo -- Chapter Five: Literature Without Us -- Chapter Six: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker -- Chapter Seven: Atonement and At-One-Ment from The Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven -- Chapter Eight: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism -- Chapter Nine: "Another World in this World": Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods -- Chapter Ten: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko -- Chapter Eleven: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Drama -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

This collection of ecocritical essays focuses on the work of Ishimure Michiko, Japan's foremost writer on the environment and culture. It discusses Ishimure's writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, with particular reference to environmental problems in Minamata and Fukushima, and argues for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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