It is often argued that postmodernism has been succeeded by a new dominant cultural logic.
We conceive of this new logic as metamodernism. Whilst some twenty-first century texts still …

Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being (2013) responds to the radical global
interconnectedness of today's world. I coin the term" minor cosmopolitics" and explain its …

By internalizing Zen Buddhist teachings, the protagonists of Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time
Being (2013) resolve their conflicts with the world and within themselves. The scenario …

In 1987, after facing years of dissent, the ruling party of the Republic of China finally lifted
martial law in Taiwan. Following this momentous decision, and especially after sedition …

Ruth Ozeki's 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being suggests that garbage provides the raw
material for meaning-making, an emphasis evident in both the content and the structure of …

This essay explores the intertwined oceanographic and spiritual imaginations structuring
Ruth Ozeki's novel A Tale for the Time Being, which she rewrote in the aftermath of the …

Through an analysis of the post-1945 nuclear entanglements between the United States and
Japan, this essay proposes that the nuclear age brings with it a new set of ethical, legal …

This dissertation identifies a previously unarticulated literary device, authorial self-
representation in fiction, and examines three authors who, in the last two decades, have …

" How do you deal with a reality that is so overwhelming and so devastating with the tool of
fiction?" asked Ruth Ozeki of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan on …

本論文旨在探討在2011 年3 月11 日重創日本的地震, 海潚, 及核災以後, 跨太平洋戰爭記憶與
連結如何被跨閱及重劃的可能. 本論文分為三個章節. 第一章以隨著3‧ 11 災難興起的[希望] …