The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taisho Japan Volume 78

by Alex Bates

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 on 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929280866
• ISBN13: 9781929280865
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"