Anzen ka, kiken ka: radiation anxiety in the multilingual Hamlet No See by Tawada Yōko

Tawada Yōko has enjoyed international acclaim in recent years for her eclectic production that overcomes ethnic and linguistic barriers to constitute a universal language that is the literary one. This contribution analyzes the poem Hamlet No See (2011?), written in Japanese/English and translated into German by the author, which constitutes a ground for intertextual experimentation through the revival of cross-cultural elements such as Shakespeare's Hamlet. After a brief introduction related to the role of multilingualism in the expression of psychological trauma, the study aims to investigate how the multilingualism performed by Tawada in her poem can assist in verbalizing the post-Fukushima radiation anxiety in the attempt to overcome the inexplicable.