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Nuclear Hegemony and Material Indices: The Satirical Verse Boom in Daily Newspapers after Fukushima
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 51, Number 3, September 2018
- pp. 141-159
- 10.1353/mos.2018.0035
- Article
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Abstract:
Following Alain Badiou's modeling of change in relation to events, this study engages New Materialist issues of human-nonhuman relations and ontologies so as to situate satirical poetry appearing in Japanese daily newspapers and tweets after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster as challenges to government and media obfuscation, thus broadening roles for creative writing in ecocriticism.