ABSTRACT
Gabrakova reads Tawada Yoko's post-Fukushima trilogy through the mythological figures of Hiruko and Susanoo, reimagined as exiled, migrant beings whose fractured identities echo both environmental catastrophe and displacement. Tawada's estranging use of myth names activates a substratum of exclusion, impurity, and exile in Japan's foundational narratives, while linking these to questions of language, trauma, and nuclear silence. Situating Hiruko as a ‘global citizen’, the chapter traces how Tawada transforms myth into a metalanguage for postnational belonging. Her trilogy articulates a transnational ethics of community amid planetary risk, reframing Japanese myth as part of wider global networks of survival.
