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 Slaymaker Preface to the English Translation Preface: Following My Shinsaigo Bungakuron (On Postdisaster Literature) Chapter 1: Post Disaster Literature and Minorities Chapter 2: The Problem of "Fukushima" Chapter 3: From Fukushima to Hiroshima and Nagasaki Chapter 4: From Disaster to War Chapter 5: The Hauntology of Postdisaster Literature Chapter 6: Post-Fukushima Sublime and the Anxiety of Hauntology Chapter 7: Radiation and Precarious Life Epilogue Bibliography About the Author and Translators