Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan

Saeko Kimura is professor in the Department of International and Cultural Studies at Tsuda University.Rachel DiNitto is professor of Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures at the University of Oregon.Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.

• Translators’ Foreword, Rachel DiNitto and Doug SlaymakerPreface to the English TranslationPreface: Following My Shinsaigo Bungakuron (On Postdisaster Literature)Chapter 1: Post Disaster Literature and MinoritiesChapter 2: The Problem of “Fukushima”Chapter 3: From Fukushima to Hiroshima and NagasakiChapter 4: From Disaster to WarChapter 5: The Hauntology of Postdisaster LiteratureChapter 6: Post-Fukushima Sublime and the Anxiety of HauntologyChapter 7: Radiation and Precarious Life EpilogueBibliographyAbout the Author and Translators