Jie Zou

Jie Zou

November 28, 2025

Post-3.11 literature, Disaster literature, Great East Japan Earthquake.

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, numerous trauma literature works emerged in Japan's literary world with disaster as their creative backdrop. These works either directly address the earthquake as their main theme or indirectly reflect the social characteristics and national psychological state of the "post-3.11 era." Although "post-3.11 literature" has formed a substantial body of work and attracted widespread attention in Japanese literary circles, systematic research has not yet emerged in Chinese academia. This study aims to organize and analyze important research findings on this topic from Japan, explore the definition, scope, and characteristics of "post-3.11 literature," reveal its significant position in the history of world disaster literature, and provide new theoretical perspectives and methodological references for related research in China.

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