Literature after Fukushima : from marginalized voices to nuclear futurity / edited by Linda Flores, Barbara Geilhorn.

Real eyes realize real lies : writing 'Fukushima' through the child's gaze / Aidana Bolatbekkyzy -- Animal stories : agency after radiation / Doug Slaymaker -- Voice and voicelessness : reading vernaculars in post-3.11 literature / Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt -- From that day forward : Tōhoku, 3.11, and 'memory landscapes' / Linda Flores -- The nuclear home and the alien village : the production of post-3.11 space in Sakate Yōji's Lone war / Justine Wiesinger -- Between trauma processing, emotional healing, and nuclear criticism : documentary theater responding to the Fukushima disaster / Barbara Geilhorn -- Lost in narration in Tawada Yōko's The emissary / Dan Fujiwara -- Spoiled meals : immunitary and metabolic imaginaries in Kawakami Mieko's 'Dreams of love, etc.' and Murata Sayaka's Convenience store woman / Chiara Pavone -- Humanism and the Hikari-event : reading Ōe with Stengers in catastrophic times / Margherita Long -- Afterword: Chernobyl's past and Fukushima's remembered future / Rachel DiNitto.

"This book analyses the social impact and literary works addressing Japan's 3.11 'Triple Disaster' - The Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Through an examination of the key works in the expanding corpus of 3.11 literature the book explores the ongoing dimensions of the disaster, demonstrating how it reframed both social reality and discourse, including trauma studies, ecocriticism, regional identity, food safety and civil society. The contributions discuss aspects of these perspectival shifts in the literary world, tracing the reshaping of Japanese identity in the years after the triple disaster. The cultural productions explored offer a glimpse into the public imaginary and demonstrate how disasters can fundamentally reshape our individual and shared conception of both history and the present moment. Contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the post-disaster climate of Japanese society and adding new perspectives through literary analysis, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Japanese and Asian Studies, Literary Studies, Environmental Humanities, as well as Cultural and Transcultural Studies"-- Provided by publisher.