The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
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The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

  1. 170 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

About this book

This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English.

Disrupting the narrative of COVID-19 as a catastrophe without precedent, this book contextualizes the COVID-19 global public health crisis and pandemic-induced social and political turbulence in a post-industrial society that has withstood multiple major destructions and disasters. From published fiction by major authors to anonymous accounts on social media, from network TV shows to contents by Virtual YouTubers (VTubers), in both "high" and "low" culturescapes, timely representations of coronavirus and individual and social livings under its impact emerge. These narratives, either personal or top-down, all endeavor to fathom this unexpected disruption of modern linear progress. Exploring the paradoxes underlying the "new normal" of Japanese society of the present day, the book collectively demonstrates how the narratives of coronavirus are not " neo-" but " re-": re turning to the past, re vealing existing problems and re claiming memories lost and lessons forgotten.

This edited volume will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of Japanese culture and society, Japanese literature, and pandemic studies.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032376356
eBook ISBN
9781000953305
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Asian Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Contributors
  9. 1 Corona Narratives as Return and a Reminder: An Introduction
  10. 2 Corona Diaries and the “Boring Apocalypse” in Japan
  11. 3 Of Miracles and Mourning: Reading COVID-19 Environmentally in Uchidate Makiko and Itō Seikō
  12. 4 Marginalizing Body and Space in Kanehara Hitomi’s COVID-19 Literature
  13. 5 Senses and Emotions: Post-COVID-19 Imaginations in Japanese Science Fiction
  14. 6 Open Becoming: A Disabled VTuber and Her Community in the Era of COVID-19
  15. 7 Narrating the Nation in a Global Crisis: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Japanese Morning Drama (Asadora)
  16. 8 Turning the Page: Reading Manga in the Pandemic Age
  17. 9 Pandemic and Mass Media: The Amabie Boom as Counterculture
  18. 10 Novel-Virus Viral Novels and the Irony Poisoning of Social Media Engagement
  19. 11 Writing in the New Age of Pandemics
  20. Index