Nuclear accidents and the radiation they release into the environment exceed human sensory perception and, ultimately, comprehension. Whereas sociological analyses of such catastrophes tend to emphasize the difficulties of risk management, writers of literary texts raise questions of meaning and narrative control. Spanning the period from 1987 to 2012, the disaster texts by Christa Wolf, Inka Parei, Yoko Tawada, and Elfriede Jelinek that are the focus of this essay explore the personal, political, linguistic, and historical complexities of such catastrophes. Expressing and acknowledging the helplessness of the subject, they offer narrative approaches to catastrophe beyond individual responses and responsibilities.
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Olga Kuchinskaya;
(2014)
The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects After Chernobyl
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Sugiman, Toshio;
(2014)
Lessons Learned from the 2011 Debacle of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
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Melanie Arndt;
(April 2018)
The Babushkas of Chernobyl
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Article
Sahm, Astrid;
(2013)
Atomenergie in Ost- und Westeuropa: Reaktionen auf Tschernobyl und Fukushima
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Marriner, Nick;
Morhange, Christophe;
(2013)
Data Mining the Intellectual Revival of “Catastrophic” Mother Nature
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Michelle Riedlinger;
Jaclyn Rea;
(July 2015)
Discourse Ecology and Knowledge Niches Negotiating the Risks of Radiation in Online Canadian Forums, Post-Fukushima
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Article
Petryna, Adriana;
(2004)
Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations
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Chapter
Naoyuki Mikami;
(2015)
Public Participation in Decision-Making on Energy Policy: The Case of the “National Discussion” After the Fukushima Accident
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Tatiana Kasperski;
(2019)
Children, Nation and Reactors: Imagining and Promoting Nuclear Power in Contemporary Ukraine
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Article
Djerf-Pierre, Monika;
(2013)
Green Metacycles of Attention: Reassessing the Attention Cycles of Environmental News Reporting 1961--2010
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Pritchard, Sara B.;
(2012)
An Envirotechnical Disaster: Nature, Technology, and Politics at Fukushima
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Stouraiti, Anastasia;
(2013)
Talk, Script and Print: The Making of Island Books in Early Modern Venice
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Article
Shi Lin Loh;
Sulfikar Amir;
(June 2019)
Healing Fukushima: Radiation hazards and disaster medicine in post-3.11 Japan
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Article
Amir, Sulfikar;
Juraku, Kohta;
(2014)
Undermining Disaster: Engineering and Epistemological Bias in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
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Yuko Fujigaki;
(2015)
Lessons From Fukushima: Japanese Case Studies on Science, Technology and Society
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Siegel, Greg;
(2014)
Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity
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Amir, Sulfikar;
Loh, Shi Lin;
(June 2019)
Film Review Forum: Response to Michael M. J. Fischer's Review of Healing Fukushima, Part 1
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Aya H. Kimura;
(2018)
Fukushima ETHOS: Post-Disaster Risk Communication, Affect, and Shifting Risks
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Akera, Atsushi;
Mohsin, Anto;
(2014)
Finding a Place for Engineering Studies in Disaster STS? Creating the STS Forum on the 2011 East Japan Disaster
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Amir, Sulfikar;
(2014)
Undermining Disaster: Engineering and Epistemological Bias in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
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