Störfälle: Literary Accounts from Chernobyl to Fukushima

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Gerstenberger, Katharina

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Literature

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Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, United states

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2014

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German Studies Review, Volume 37, Issue 1, 2014, pages 131-148

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eng

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Set in the year 2021, "The Island of Eternal Life" is another example of the "futu- rity" in [Wolf, Tawada]'s work to which Leslie Adelson has drawn attention in a recent piece.37 Prompted by the observation that memory culture and the historical past in literary texts are much better understood than conceptions of the future,38 Adelson shows that writing and reading, or, more precisely, the writing persona as reader, are central to Tawada's notion of futurity as the production and reception of texts.39 Arguing for a more nuanced understanding of Tawada's "writing project as a transformative one," Adelson insists that reading can create a "parallel Zeitraum" in the present before giving rise to future writing.40 A similar literary construct can be found in "The Island of Eternal Life," in which the narrator as reader places the [Fukushima] catastrophe into a temporal and spatial location of its own by projecting past representations of Japan into the future. Tawada's narrator, in the absence of any contemporary-style news from Japan such as live reporting or instant information via the internet, buys a book by a Portuguese author named Fernão Mendes Pinto, who claims to be the grandson of the sixteenth-century traveler of the same name.

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Störfälle: Literary Accounts from Chernobyl to Fukushima

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