Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age: Literature, Film, and Performance from Germany and Japan [Hardcover]

This groundbreaking volume explores new artistic forms that emerged in German-speaking Europe and Japan in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. Considering the cultural specificity of post-3.11 literature, poetry, theater, and film, while also attending to moments of crossing, hybridity, and transference, Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age offers a critical model for examining the intertwining of transnational connection and ecological contamination in a global present marked by  renewed nuclear threat. Bringing together incisive readings by eminent scholars of Germany and Japan as well as a newly translated work by YMko Tawada, the volume offers a comparative humanities approach that is essential for reframing debates about environmental crisis and nuclear risk.

Introduction.-Nuclear Futures: Intertwined Histories and Imaginative Visions in Post-Fukushima Japan and Germany.-Hester Baer and Michele M. Mason.-From Half-Lives to Eternal Life: On Contamination and Isolation in Yoko Tawadas Post-3.11 Eco Texts .-Jeremy Redlich.-Animal BabelYoko Tawada.- translated by Doug Slaymaker.-The Fractured Looking-glass: 20th-Century History in Post-Meltdown Japanese Theater

.-Justine Wiesinger.-Our Fukushima, Our Earth: Nuclear Protest Poetry Following Fukushima

.-Jeffrey Angles.-Fission, Food, and Family: Alina Bronskys Baba Dunjas Last Love and the Possibility of Bad Environmental Narrative .-Bradley Boovy.-Slow Violence in Japans Nuclear Future: Kirino Natsuos Baraka .-