Now I am Become Death”: Japanese and Canadian Industrial Contamination in Michiko Ishimure’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease and Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle

Now I am Become Death”: Japanese and Canadian Industrial Contamination in Michiko Ishimure’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease and Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle

<p>Canada and Japan share a history of industrial contamination that has resulted in mercury poisoning; the inhabitants of both Minamata, Japan and the Indigenous community of Grassy Narrows, Ontario have suffered from what would come to be known as Minamata disease. Environmental activists, p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shoshannah Ganz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Huelva 2018-05-01
Series:Canada and Beyond
Subjects:
canadian literature
canadian cultural studies
japanese literature
japanese cultural studies
eco-criticism
minamata studies
ishimure michiko
thomas king
Online Access:http://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/CanadaBeyond/article/view/3103

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http://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/CanadaBeyond/article/view/3103

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