Edited by Bruce Allen and Yuki Masami - Contributions by Ikezawa Natsuki; Iwaoka Nakamasa; Christine Marran; Livia Monnet; Patrick D. Murphy; Karen Thornber; Toyosato Mayumi and Watanabe Kyoji

This collection of ecocritical essays focuses on the work of Ishimure Michiko, Japan's foremost writer on the environment and culture. It discusses Ishimure's writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, with particular reference to environmental problems in Minamata and Fukushima, and argues for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bruce Allen and Yuki Masami
Chapter 1: The World of Kugai J¿do
Watanabe Ky¿ji
Chapter 2: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea
Ikezawa Natsuki
Chapter 3: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko's Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident
Yuki Masami
Chapter 4: Mapping Modernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko's Kugai J¿do
Toyosato Mayumi
Chapter 5: Literature Without Us
Christine Marran
Chapter 6: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker
Iwaoka Nakamasa
Chapter 7: Atonement and At-one-ment: From Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven
Patrick Murphy
Chapter 8: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism
Karen Thornber
Chapter 9: Another World in This World: Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods
Livia Monnet
Chapter 10: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko
Bruce Allen
Chapter 11: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Play
A Translation by Aihara Yuko and Bruce Allen
About the Editors and Contributors