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This paper examined the possibility of defining dystopian literature in the atomic bomb novel by paying attention to the disgust patterns in the work of Mitsuharu Inoue, a Japanese atomic bomb novel writer. In particular, the pattern of transplantation and proliferation of disgust between others, heterogeneous minorities, and heterogeneous communities was analyzed in terms of contamination and infection of disgust. Inoue's atomic bomb novels, such as House of Hands (1960) and Crowds on Earth (1963), clearly show the process and structure of the occurrence and proliferation of disgust spreading to social discrimination. The intense hate between minority communities, such as atomic bomb victims, discriminated villagers, Koreans, and Kakure Kirishitan, confirms the difficulties of empathy and solidarity between minorities. And, hate is especially noticeable for women through ‘blood’. The atomic bomb and atomic bomb literature imprinted that hate and discrimination are not problems of a few exceptional beings, but universal problems that can be encountered by external and accidental factors such as environment and disaster. ‘The atomic bomb and subsequent' are consistent with the characteristics of dystopia, which is characterized by unpredictability and denial of human autonomy and diversity of life by disrupting and overturning the order and rationality pursued by humans. What is confirmed through Inoue's atomic bomb novel is the inevitability to discuss atomic bomb literature, pollution disease literature, and post3.11 literature from a cross-sectional and convergent perspective of dystopian literature and minority literature.

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