Resurrecting Nagasaki : reconstruction and the formation of atomic narratives / Chad R. Diehl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diehl, Chad, author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Japan--Nagasaki-shi.

Reconstruction (1939-1951).

City planning.

History.

Collective memory.

Atomic bomb victims.

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

Nagasaki-shi (Japan).

Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Nagasaki-shi.

Collective memory--Japan--Nagasaki-shi.

City planning--Japan--Nagasaki-shi--History--20th century.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Japan--Nagasaki-shi.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 216 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.

Contents:

Envisioning "Nagasaki" : the rise of the municipal vision of reconstruction

Coexisting in the "valley of death" : American soldiers and Nagasaki residents during the occupation

The "saint" of Urakami : Nagai Takashi and early representations of the atomic experience

Writing Nagasaki : the occupation publishing industry, Nagasaki no kane, and atomic narratives

Walls of silence : the postwar lives and memory activism of the hibakusha

Ruins of memory : the Urakami cathedral and politics of urban identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Diehl, Chad. Resurrecting Nagasaki.

ISBN:

9781501714962

1501714961

OCLC:

987491286