Hideo Furukawa is a novelist based in Tokyo. He has received the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, the Japan SF Grand Prize, and the Yukio Mishima Award. He is also author of the novel Belka, Why Don“t You Bark? (2012), translated into English by Michael Emmerich.Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.Akiko Takenaka is associate professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky.
8 Ebooks von Doug Slaymaker
Hideo Furukawa: Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure
‚As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people were wearing such masks. I was trying to determin …
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Yūsuke Kimura: Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa’s Deluge
In these two novellas, Kimura Yūsuke explores human and animal life in northern Japan after the natural and nuclear disasters of March 11, 2011. Kimura inscribes the “Triple Disaster” into a rich reg …
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James Dorsey & Douglas Slaymaker: Literary Mischief
Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the …
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€104.36
Michael K. Bourdaghs & Richi Sakakibara: Literature among the Ruins, 1945-1955
In the wake of the disaster of 1945as Japan was forced to remake itself from ‚;empire‘ to ‚;nation‘ in the face of an uncertain global situationliterature and literary criticism emerged as highly …
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€44.04
Yuki Masami & Keijiro Suga: Ecocriticism in Japan
What 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 …
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€46.02
Doug Slaymaker: Tawada Yoko
This collection draws from scholars across different languages to address and assess the scholarly achievements of Tawada Yoko. Yoko, born in Japan (1960) and based in Germany, writes and presents in …
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€37.72
Saeko Kimura: Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan
This seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the triple disastersthe earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear …
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€37.33
