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The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taishô Japan

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Bates, Alex

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The Culture of the Quake is first and foremost an exploration of Taishô-era narrative fiction. Every major film studio produced earthquake films, and authors from I-novelists to modernists, proletarian writers to popular...

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Fiction from Unstable Ground: The Imagination of Disaster in the Aftermath of the Kantō Earthquake

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Bates, Alex

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This essay explores two different approaches to disaster found in fiction following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923: trauma and differential vulnerability., Alex Bates, "Fiction from Unstable Ground: The Imagination of...

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Introduction: Teaching Japanese Postwar Fiction in the English-Language Classroom

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Bates, Alex

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This volume is devoted to teaching works of Japanese fiction---novels, short stories, and manga (graphic novels and comics)---produced following the end of Japan's war with China, America, and their allies in 1945. The title is...

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Nature and Disaster in Murakami Haruki's "after the quake"

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Bates, Alex

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Ishigami Genʼichirō was at his apartment in the Kobe foothills when the Great Hanshin Awaji earthquake struck on January 17, 1995. Like most people, he was awakened by the early-morning shaking and rushed outside. From the...

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