Author(s)

Haijing Mu

Corresponding Author

Haijing Mu

ABSTRACT

Themed with the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the "atomic bomb literature" records the miserable scenes when and after the atomic bombs exploded, and reflects the great sufferings to the Japanese people for nuclear weapons. "Atomic bomb literature" is a major branch of Japanese postwar literature and an integral part of environmental ecology. From the perspective of ecofeminism, this paper interprets the classic works of Japan’s "atomic bomb literature", specifically analyses the catastrophe suffered by women and nature for atomic bombing, and dissects the hatred of writers for nuclear weapons and military wars, their worries about the protection of ecological environment and the fate of human beings, and more importantly, their concerns about the living conditions of young women and their care for female groups, thus creating a new perspective for the study of Japanese postwar literature and its representative writers.

KEYWORDS

Ecofeminism, atomic bomb literature, devastation, rebirth