Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster - the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Linda Flores is an Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Literature in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford and the Fellow in Japanese Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford, UK.

Barbara Geilhorn is a Principal Researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ) and an Adjunct Researcher at the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Japan.

Introduction Part 1: Marginalized Voices 1. Real Eyes Realize Real Lies: Writing 'Fukushima' through the Child's Gaze 2. Animal Stories: Agency after Radiation 3. Voice and Voicelessness: Reading Vernaculars in Post-3.11 Literature Part 2: Spatial Acts 4. From That Day Forward: Tohoku, 3.11, and 'Memory Landscapes' 5. The Nuclear Home and the Alien Village: The Production of Post-3.11 Space in Sakate Yoji's Lone War 6. Between Trauma Processing, Emotional Healing, and Nuclear Criticism- Documentary Theater Responding to the Fukushima Disaster Part 3: Border-Crossing 7. Lost in Narration in Tawada Yoko's The Emissary 8. Spoiled Meals: Immunitary and Metabolic Imaginaries in Kawakami Mieko's 'Dreams of Love, Etc.' and Murata Sayaka's Convenience Store Woman Part 4: Nuclear Futurity 9. Humanism and the Hikari-Event: Reading Oe with Stengers in Catastrophic Times 10. Afterword: Chernobyl's Past and Fukushima's Remembered Future