Narrating Fukushima: The Genre of “Notes” as a Literary Response to the 3|11 Triple Disaster in Hideo Furukawa’s Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure (2011) and Michaël Ferrier’s Fukushima: Récit d’un désastre (2012)
Abstract:this essay examines two unclassifiable texts-interweaving the genres of the essay, novel, poetry, and life writing-published in Japanese and in French in the aftermath of the triple disaster that hit Japan on 11 March 2011. these post-Fukushima hybrid works by hideo Furukawa and Michaël Ferrier attempt to narrativize this unprecedented conjunction of natural and man-made catastrophes-which combined the unfathomable damage caused by the tsunami and the invisible nuclear radiation, which both induce a specific c… Show more
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