Rachel DiNitto, Fukushima fiction: The literary landscape of Japan’s triple disaster [Book review]

Bush, Emily 2024. Rachel DiNitto, Fukushima fiction: The literary landscape of Japan’s triple disaster [Book review]. Japan Forum 36 (1) , pp. 126-128. 10.1080/09555803.2023.2230964

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Abstract

On 11 March 2011 a magnitude 9.1 earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of Japan’s Tōhoku region. This caused a tsunami, which hit the coastline of Tōhoku and subsequently caused a meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tens of thousands of people died, thousands were injured, thousands more went missing, and hundreds of thousands were displaced from their homes and communities. In the aftermath many authors wrote literary responses to this triple disaster, often referred to as 3/11. Published 8 years later, Rachel DiNitto’s book, Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster, expertly brings many of these responses together for close analysis.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Modern Languages
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	0955-5803
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 November 2023
Date of Acceptance:	3 July 2023
Last Modified:	03 Jan 2025 02:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/163967

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