Read more
List of contents
Introduction: On Hiroshima becoming history, N.A.J. Taylor and Robert Jacobs 1. Contested Spaces of Ethnicity: zainichi Korean Accounts of the Atomic Bombings, Erik Ropers 2. Memory and Survival in Everyday Textures – Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima, Makeda Best 3. The Most Modern City in the World: Isamu Noguchi’s Cenotaph Controversy and Hiroshima’s City of Peace, Ran Zwigenberg 4. Nuclear Cosmopolitan Memory in The War Game (1965) and ‘The Museum of Ante-Memorials’ (2012), Jessica Rapson 5. Nuclear Memory, Stefanie Fishel 6. Nagasaki Re-imagined: The Last Shall Be First, Kathleen Sullivan 7. The Atomic Gaze and Ankoku Butoh in post-war Japan, Adam Broinowski 8. Australian POW and Occupation Force Experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a Digital Hyper-Visualisation, Stuart Bender and Mick Broderick 9. In the Light of Hiroshima: Banalizing Violence and Normalizing Experiences of the Atomic Bombing, Yuki Miyamoto 10. Hiroshima and the Paradoxes of Japanese Nuclear Perplexity, Thomas E. Doyle, II 11. For granting (a) voice, Marcel Quiroz 12. Witnessing Nagasaki for the Second Time, Imafuku Ryuta 13. Antimonument: A short reflection on writings by Marcela Quiroz and Ryuta Imafuku, Shinpei Takeda
About the author
N.A.J. Taylor is a lecturer in Australian Environmental Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Robert Jacobs is a professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and Hiroshima City University, Japan.
Summary
This edited volume brings together essays from the new scholarship about the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and reimagines the harm inflicted and the aftermath of the bombs.
