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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI was in the room when Ishimure Michiko magically read her work, for the first time, to an international audience at the ASLE-US and ASLE-J symposium in Hawai‘i in the summer of 1996—and I also watched Ishimure-san as she smiled at a panel of young Japanese scholars who presented short papers about her work at the same conference. This extraordinary collection of scholarly articles and literary translations, published nearly twenty years after the 1996 symposium, offers a fitting tribute to the multidimensionality of Ishimure’s literary work and to the growing sophistication of ecocriticism. I enjoyed this book tremendously and learned a lot from it. -- Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Bruce Allen and Yuki Masami Chapter 1: The World of Kugai Jōdo Watanabe Kyōji Chapter 2: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea Ikezawa Natsuki Chapter 3: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko’s Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident Yuki Masami Chapter 4: Mapping Modernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko’s Kugai Jōdo Toyosato Mayumi Chapter 5: Literature Without Us Christine Marran Chapter 6: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker Iwaoka Nakamasa Chapter 7: Atonement and At-one-ment: From Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven Patrick Murphy Chapter 8: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism Karen Thornber Chapter 9: Another World in This World: Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko’s Villages of the Gods Livia Monnet Chapter 10: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko Bruce Allen Chapter 11: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Play A Translation by Aihara Yuko and Bruce Allen About the Editors and Contributors
