Unfinished Atomic Bomb - Shadows and Reflections

This collection examines how the use of the atomic bomb in Japan has been memorialized. The contributors analyze the cultural legacies of the atomic bomb in political, historical, literary, and artistic contexts.

List of contents

Introduction: An Unfinished Atomic Bomb, David Lowe, Cassandra Atherton, and Alyson Miller
Chapter 1: Defending the Indefensible: The Tragic Life of Hiroshima Pilot Paul Tibbets, Jr., Peter J. Kuznick
Chapter 2: Article 9 as Memorial, Carolyn Stevens
Chapter 3: Atomic Bomb Literature for Children: Tatsuharu Kodama's The Lunch Box and Shin's Tricycle, Alyson Miller
Chapter 4: Fading Lights: Digital Visualization and the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mick Broderick
Chapter 5: Two-Way Mirror: The Significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the U.S.-North Korea Nuclear Crisis, Adam Broinowski
Chapter 6: Hibaku Jumoku, Nature, and Hiroshima's Recovery after the A-Bomb, Glenn Moore
Chapter 7: "In the Shadow of the Cloud": Hibakusha Poets as Public Intellectuals, Cassandra Atherton
Chapter 8: The Flowers of Hiroshima, Monica Braw
Chapter 9: The Manhattan Project Historical National Park, David Lowe
Chapter 10: Hi-Roshimon: What We See When We Look at Hiroshima, Robert Jacobs

About the author

Edited by David Lowe; Cassandra Atherton and Alyson Miller - Contributions by Cassandra Atherton; Monica Braw; Mick Broderick; Adam Broinowski; Robert Jacobs; Peter J. Kuznick; David Lowe; Alyson Miller; Glenn Moore and Carolyn S. Stevens

Summary

This collection examines how the use of the atomic bomb in Japan has been memorialized. The contributors analyze the cultural legacies of the atomic bomb in political, historical, literary, and artistic contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Broderick, JACOBS, Lowe, David Atherton Lowe
• Assisted by: Cassandra Atherton (Editor), Atherton Cassandra (Editor), David Lowe (Editor), Alyson Miller (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498550222
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5022-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan; New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Literature: history and criticism