Article ID: CBB001202007

Störfälle: Literary Accounts from Chernobyl to Fukushima (2014)

unapi

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.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001202007/

Similar Citations

Article Sugiman, Toshio; (2014)
Lessons Learned from the 2011 Debacle of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (/isis/citation/CBB001420061/)

Article Melanie Arndt; (April 2018)
The Babushkas of Chernobyl (/isis/citation/CBB797808092/)

Article Sahm, Astrid; (2013)
Atomenergie in Ost- und Westeuropa: Reaktionen auf Tschernobyl und Fukushima (/isis/citation/CBB001200600/)

Article Marriner, Nick; Morhange, Christophe; (2013)
Data Mining the Intellectual Revival of “Catastrophic” Mother Nature (/isis/citation/CBB001320859/)

Article Michelle Riedlinger; Jaclyn Rea; (July 2015)
Discourse Ecology and Knowledge Niches Negotiating the Risks of Radiation in Online Canadian Forums, Post-Fukushima (/isis/citation/CBB039967740/)

Article Petryna, Adriana; (2004)
Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations (/isis/citation/CBB000750331/)

Article Tatiana Kasperski; (2019)
Children, Nation and Reactors: Imagining and Promoting Nuclear Power in Contemporary Ukraine (/isis/citation/CBB123644988/)

Article Pritchard, Sara B.; (2012)
An Envirotechnical Disaster: Nature, Technology, and Politics at Fukushima (/isis/citation/CBB001232549/)

Article Stouraiti, Anastasia; (2013)
Talk, Script and Print: The Making of Island Books in Early Modern Venice (/isis/citation/CBB001202085/)

Article Shi Lin Loh; Sulfikar Amir; (June 2019)
Healing Fukushima: Radiation hazards and disaster medicine in post-3.11 Japan (/isis/citation/CBB754363980/)

Article Amir, Sulfikar; Juraku, Kohta; (2014)
Undermining Disaster: Engineering and Epistemological Bias in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis (/isis/citation/CBB001550641/)

Book Yuko Fujigaki; (2015)
Lessons From Fukushima: Japanese Case Studies on Science, Technology and Society (/isis/citation/CBB681578186/)

Book Siegel, Greg; (2014)
Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity (/isis/citation/CBB001500578/)

Article Amir, Sulfikar; Loh, Shi Lin; (June 2019)
Film Review Forum: Response to Michael M. J. Fischer's Review of Healing Fukushima, Part 1 (/isis/citation/CBB807003347/)

Article Aya H. Kimura; (2018)
Fukushima ETHOS: Post-Disaster Risk Communication, Affect, and Shifting Risks (/isis/citation/CBB475939892/)

Article Akera, Atsushi; Mohsin, Anto; (2014)
Finding a Place for Engineering Studies in Disaster STS? Creating the STS Forum on the 2011 East Japan Disaster (/isis/citation/CBB532871451/)

Article Amir, Sulfikar; (2014)
Undermining Disaster: Engineering and Epistemological Bias in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis (/isis/citation/CBB005524318/)

Authors & Contributors
Amir, Sulfikar
Loh, Shi-Lin
Kimura, Aya Hirata
Naoyuki Mikami
Rea, Jaclyn
Melanie Arndt
Concepts
Disasters; catastrophes
Fukushima disaster
Science and politics
Public understanding of science
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Nuclear and radioactive waste
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Early modern
20th century
Places
Japan
Ukraine
Soviet Union
Belarus
Mediterranean region
Americas
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment