Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature

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<P>Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society, and following the Asia-Pacific war¿s never-ending ¿postwar¿ period, Japan has been dramatically forced into a zeitgeist of <I>saigo</I> or ¿post-disaster.¿ This radically new worldview has significantly altered the socio-political as well as literary perception of one of the world¿s potential superpowers, and in this book the contributors closely examine how Japan¿s new paradigm of precarious existence is expressed through a variety of pop-cultural as well as literary media.</P><P>Addressing the transition from post-war to post-disaster literature, this book examines the rise of precarity consciousness in Japanese socio-cultural discourse. The chapters investigate the extent to which we can talk about the emergence of a new literary paradigm of precarity in the world of Japanese popular culture. Through careful examination of a variety of contemporary text