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Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective
eBook - Between Sea and Sky, Ecocritical Theory and Practice
ISBN/EAN: 9780739194232
Umbreit-Nr.: 814715
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 228 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 19.11.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span>This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japans foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many critics as Japans most original and important literary writer. Ishimure has written over 50 volumes in a wide range of genres, including novels, Noh drama, poetry, childrens stories, essays, and mixed-genre writing. This collection brings together the work of scholars from Japan, the U.S., and Canada who are authorities on Ishimures writing. Contributors discuss Ishimures writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, arguing for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility. It will help to relate various environmental, cultural, and ecocritical issues, ranging from the events at Minamata to those at Fukushima, and consider how they point to future developments.</span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span>This collection of ecocritical essays focuses on the work of Ishimure Michiko, Japans foremost writer on the environment and culture. It discusses Ishimures writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, with particular reference to environmental problems in Minamata and Fukushima, and argues for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility.</span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span><span>Bruce Allen</span><span> is professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Seisen University, Tokyo.</span></span><br><br><span><span>Yuki Masami</span><span> is professor at Kanazawa University where she teaches environmental literature and English as a foreign language.</span></span>