Hiroshima : the origins of global memory culture / Ran Zwigenberg, Pennsylvania State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zwigenberg, Ran, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.

Collective memory.

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

Atomic bomb victims.

Memorials--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.

Memorials.

Peace--Political aspects--Japan.

Peace.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

War victims--Mental health.

War victims.

Collective memory--Case studies.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Moral and ethical aspects.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan).

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1962, a Hiroshima peace delegation and an Auschwitz survivor's organization exchanged relics and testimonies, including the bones and ashes of Auschwitz victims. This symbolic encounter, in which the dead were literally conscripted in the service of the politics of the living, serves as a cornerstone of this volume, capturing how memory was utilized to rebuild and redefine a shattered world. This is a powerful study of the contentious history of remembrance and the commemoration of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in the context of the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory. Emphasizing the importance of nuclear issues in the 1950s and 1960s, Zwigenberg traces the rise of global commemoration culture through the reconstruction of Hiroshima as a 'City of Bright Peace', memorials and museums, global tourism, developments in psychiatry, and the emergence of the figure of the survivor-witness and its consequences for global memory practices.

Contents:

Introduction

The bright flash of peace : city planning, commemoration and politics in Hiroshima, 1945-1955

Modernity's angst : survivors between shame and pride, 1945-1960

Socialist bombs and peaceful atoms : exhibiting modernity and fighting for peace in Hiroshima, 1955-1962

Wounds of the heart : Robert Lifton, PTSD and the psychiatric reassessment of survivors and trauma

The Hiroshima-Auschwitz Peace March

A sacred ground for peace : violence, tourism and the sanctification of the Peace Park, 1963-1975

Peeling red apples : the Hiroshima-Auschwitz Committee and the Hiroshima-Auschwitz Museum, 1973-1995

Conclusion: The other Ground Zero? Hiroshima, Auschwitz, 9/11 and the world between them.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-14364-3

1-316-14366-X

1-316-14408-9

1-316-14405-4

1-316-14371-6

1-107-41659-0

1-316-14406-2

1-316-14410-0

1-316-14407-0

1-107-77544-2