American survivors trans-Pacific memories of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Naoko Wake

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wake, Naoko, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.

World War, 1939-1945.

Americans--Japan.

Americans.

Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.

Atomic bomb victims.

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

Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Personal narratives, American.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan).

Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Personal narratives, American.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan).

Japanese Americans.

Japan.

Japan--Hiroshima-shi.

Japan--Nagasaki-shi.

Genre:

Personal narratives

History

Personal narratives -- American

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2021

Summary:

American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the public understanding of nuclear weaponry. A truly trans-Pacific history, American Survivors challenges the dualistic distinction between Americans-as-victors and Japanese-as-victims often assumed by scholars of the nuclear war. Using more than 130 oral histories of Japanese American and Korean American survivors, their family members, community activists, and physicians - most of which appear here for the first time - Naoko Wake reveals a cross-national history of war, illness, immigration, gender, family, and community from intimately personal perspectives. American Survivors brings to light the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that connects, as much as separates, people across time and national boundaries

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Notes on the Text

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Cities of Immigrants

2 Remembering the Nuclear Holocaust

3 Reconnecting Families

4 War and Work Across the Pacific

5 Finding Survivorhood

6 Endlessness of Radiation Illness

Epilogue

Notes

Glossary

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-380) and index

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 02, 2021)

Other Format:

Print version Wake, Naoko. American survivors

ISBN:

9781108892094

1108892094

9781108880558

110888055X

9781108799904

1108799906

OCLC:

1253684112

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license