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 Disaster in the Aftermath of the Kantō Earthquake, in The 100th Anniversary of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake, edited by Kerry Smith, special issue, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 21, no. 8 (2023): Article ID 5785. https://apjjf.org/2023/8/Bates.html

Alex Bates is a professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Dickinson College.

© 2023 Alex Bates
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