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Anzen ka, kiken ka: radiation anxiety in the multilingual Hamlet No See by Tawada Yōko
Full text linkTawada Yōko has enjoyed international acclaim in recent years for her eclectic production that overcomes ethnic and linguistic barriers to constitute a universal language that is the literary one. This contribution analyzes the poem Hamlet No See (2011?), written in Japanese/English and translated into German by the author, which constitutes a ground for intertextual experimentation through the revival of cross-cultural elements such as Shakespeare's Hamlet.
After a brief introduction related to the role of multilingualism in the expression of psychological trauma, the study aims to investigate how the multilingualism performed by Tawada in her poem can assist in verbalizing the post-Fukushima radiation anxiety in the attempt to overcome the inexplicable
Itō Seikō’s mourning voice(s)
Full text linkTwo years after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami or 3.11 as it is more commonly known, Japanese author Itō Seikō いとうせいこう achieved a resounding success with his novel Sōzō Rajio 想像ラジオ, an atypical story of a radio program whose main protagonists are the deceased. Ten years later, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the disaster, the nonfictional work entitled Fukushima monorōgu 福島モノローグ makes its appearance on the bookshelves. This late publication brings back the voices of the 3.11 survivors in a specular fashion in comparison with the previous work and elicits the misleading juxtaposition of fiction and death, and non-fiction and life.
This study explores the representational power of Itō’s literature when it comes to mourning death and loss in the wake of the 3.11 disaster. By applying a psychological reading of his works, the article pursues the main objective, which is to investigate the role of literature in dealing with psychological trauma and examine how trauma is represented, thus emphasizing the value attributed by the writer to the victim’s mourning voices
Città di cadaveri
No full textIl 6 agosto 1945 la bomba atomica vine sganciata sulla città di Hiroshima. Yōko Ōta si trova lì, a poca distanza dall’epicentro: miracolosamente sopravvissuta alla catastrofe, ci racconta senza censure il dramma dell’umanità, il minuto dopo, il giorno dopo, il mese dopo la deflagrazione. Uno sguardo straziante ma necessario, per cogliere Hiroshima in tutta la sua concretezza, nell’orrore e nel dolore di quel che resta dopo. Una voce coraggiosa contro la violenza inumana del conflitto, e contro l’incomprensibile potenza distruttrice dell’essere umano
Città di cadaveri: genesi e ricezione della primissima testimonianza del bombardamento atomico
No full textIl 6 agosto 1945 la bomba atomica vine sganciata sulla città di Hiroshima. Yōko Ōta si trova li, a poca distanza dall’epicentro: miracolosamente sopravvissuta alla catastrofe, ci racconta senza censure il dramma dell’umanità, il minuto dopo, il giorno dopo, il mese dopo la deflagrazione. Uno sguardo straziante ma necessario, per cogliere Hiroshima in tutta la sua concretezza, nell’orrore e nel dolore di quel che resta dopo. Una voce coraggiosa contro la violenza inumana del conflitto, e contro l’incomprensibile potenza distruttrice dell’essere umano
Gli ultimi bambini di Tōkyō
No full textUn Giappone devastato da un disastro nucleare, rimane un barlume di speranza e un gioioso invito alla resistenza
Wird irgendetwas mit mir geschehen? Psycho(patho)logical perspectives on Hannah Arendt’s The Banality of Evil
Full text linkIn 1961, the Eichmann trial opened in Jerusalem, and its worldwide resonance through media coverage questioned the collective conscience about responsibility for Nazi crimes. German philosopher Hannah Arendt attended the process as a special correspondent for the U.S. magazine The New Yorker. Her Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) caused a great scandal: the author advanced the brazen idea of collective co-responsibility for Nazi crimes, reporting the identikit of a standard bureaucrat, a seemingly ordinary man, just like any one of us. Almost sixty years after its publication, this study adopts a primarily psycho(patho)logical perspective to reflect once again on the considerations Arendt shared in the Banality of Evil. In showing the multiple facets of banality, the research investigates recent results in the analysis of the criminal mind in order to shed light on the etiology of evil
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