The culture of the quake : the great Kanto Earthquake and Taishō Japan / Alex Bates.

Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies/The University of Michigan, [2015]

vii, 220 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

"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."

English

July 25, 2016

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; number 78

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.