Mujō e kizuna come motivi resilienti nella scrittura di Izumi Shiga

This contribution presents Shiga Izumi's Mujō no kami ga maioriru (2017) as an example of a fictional account of the Tōhoku triple disaster that highlights the resilient qualities of tsunami survivors and evacuees from the areas surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The analysis adopts a psychological approach that refers to positive psychiatry, aimed at defining the ambiguity of the concept of resilience and its numerous expressions. The study distinguishes coping skills, resilience, and posttraumatic growth, each exemplified by the protagonists' actions portrayed by Shiga Izumi. This approach makes it possible to observe how the resilient qualities of the Japanese population are partly attributable to culture-specific factors, such as beliefs of a Buddhist philosophical matrix, and partly an expression of qualities intrinsic to human beings and, therefore, universal. The first case refers to impermanence (mujō), which stands for the regenerative potential of creation even in the face of a contaminated and corrupted environment. The analysis shows that this resilient attitude is the global heritage of all humanity, resulting from social support and mutual empathy that sees its healing power in social bonds (kizuna).