Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki : nuclear humanities in the post-Cold War / edited by N.A.J. Taylor and Robert Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, N. A. J., editor.

Jacobs, Robert A., 1960- editor.

Series:

War, politics and experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb.

History.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan).

Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan).

Atomic bomb--History--20th century.

Japan--Hiroshima-shi.

Japan--Nagasaki-shi.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 183 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: on Hiroshima becoming history / N.A.J. Taylor

Contested spaces of ethnicity: Zainichi Korean accounts of the atomic bombings / Erik Ropers

Memory and survival in everyday textures: Ishiuchi Miyako's Hiroshima / Makeda Best

The most modern city in the world: Isamu Noguchi's cenotaph controversy and Hiroshima's city of peace / Ran Zwigenberg

Nuclear cosmopolitan memory in the war game (1965) and "The museum of ante-memorials" (2012) / Jessica Rapson

Nuclear memory / Stefanie Fishel

Nagasaki re-imagined: the last shall be first / Kathleen Sullivan

The atomic gaze and Ankoku Butoh in post-war Japan / Adam Broinowski

Australian POW and occupation force experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a digital hyper-visualisation / Stuart Bender and Mick Broderick

In the light of Hiroshima: banalizing violence and normalizing experiences of the atomic bombing / Yuki Miyamoto

Hiroshima and the paradoxes of Japanese nuclear perplexity / Thomas E. Doyle, II

For granting (a) voice / Marcel Quiroz

Witnessing Nagasaki for the second time / Imafuku Ryuta

Antimonument: a short reflection on writings by Marcela Quiroz and Ryuta Imafuku / Shinpei Takeda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138201842

1138201847

OCLC:

992119915

Publisher Number:

99974810493