The Culture of the Quake
Subtitle: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taisho Japan
Publisher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Published: Dec 04, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781929280865
Description: "The Culture of the Quake is first and foremost an exploration of Taishō-era narrative fiction. Every major film studio produced earthquake films, and authors from I-novelists to modernists, proletarian writers to popular fiction writers wrote something o the earthquake. In every case pre-existing attitudes toward their work shaped the way these people represented the earthquake, and yet the overwhelming destruction and mass suffering also posed particular challenges in representation."
Notes: Source title: The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taisho Japan (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)