Towards Eden: Three post nuclear crisis reconstruction strategies
Post-crisis narratives are invested in narrative representation and symbolic reconstruction as a means of re-structuring meaning and re-establishing community. The themes in the following narratives are lofty: apocalypse and the fate of humanity. Nagasaki no kane (The Bells of Nagasaki) (1949) is an...
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| Tóm tắt: | Post-crisis narratives are invested in narrative representation and symbolic reconstruction as a means of re-structuring meaning and re-establishing community. The themes in the following narratives are lofty: apocalypse and the fate of humanity. Nagasaki no kane (The Bells of Nagasaki) (1949) is an epic ground zero description of the nuclear event framed as a Catholic narrative of martyrdom. It is also a memorial for those who died in the blast. Maria no kubi (1959) is a hibakusha 被爆者 (atomic bomb victim) drama also set in Nagasaki, and it unveils the forgotten martyrs, the hidden Kurishitans (Christians) of Nagasaki. Through the evocation of Mary’s apparition, it offers an intimate look at the task of translating a Westernized Catholic ideology into an original Japanese conception. In Duras’ narrative Yes, Peut-être (1968), the unheeded spectre of the Hiroshima atomic tragedy haunts a nameless post-apocalyptic future. Each of these interrogations seeks catharsis with contrasting degrees of success and also negotiates its relationship into larger discourses. Takashi Nagai’s recovery of meaning relies on an adopted spiritual framework. Chikao Tanaka excavates poetic re-appropriated meaning from reconstruction of the symbolic. Marguerite Duras’ impossibility of nothing is part of the language of depression. They also illustrate the range of strategies mediated in these post-crisis textimonies in the search for the glimmer of a new utopia. |
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