Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Bates, Alex, 1974-

Publication

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

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Description

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

Summary

"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."

Series Statement

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; number 78

Uniform Title

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies no. 78.

Subject

• Kanto Earthquake (Japan : 1923)
• 1900 - 1999
• Japanese literature > Taishō period, 1912-1926 > History and criticism
• Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923, in literature
• Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923, in motion pictures
• Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 > Personal narratives
• Motion pictures > Japan > History > 20th century
• Japanese literature > Taishō period
• Kanto Earthquake (Japan : 1923) in literature
• Kanto Earthquake (Japan : 1923) in motion pictures
• Motion pictures
• Japan

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Personal narratives

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781929280865 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1929280866 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2015035085

OCLC

• 925355094
• SCSB-11638463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library