The Writing of Disaster - Literary Representations of War, Trauma and Earthquakes in Modern Japan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783631801529)

This book examines literary representations of war, flood and earthquakes in twentieth and twenty-first century Japan using trauma as a focus. The book focuses mainly on poetry but also analyzing various prose works. This topic has been explored previously by scholars of European literature but rarely in studies of modern Japanese literature.