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Fiction from Unstable Ground: The Imagination of Disaster in the Aftermath of the Kantō Earthquake
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2025
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This essay explores two different approaches to disaster found in fiction following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923: trauma and differential vulnerability.
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