Shadows of Nagasaki - Trauma, Religion, and Memory After the Atomic Bombing

Table des matières

Note on Japanese Names | xi

Introduction: Imagining Nagasaki: Religion and History in Postatomic Memoryscapes

Chad R. Diehl | 1

Part I: Catholic Responses

The "Saint" of Urakami: Nagai Takashi and Early Representations of the Atomic Experience

Chad R. Diehl | 33

Loving Your Neighbor across the Sea:

The Reception of the Work of Nagai Takashi in the Republic of Korea

Haeseong Park and Franklin Rausch | 70

Faith, Family, Earth, and the Atomic Bomb in the Art of Nagai Takashi

Anthony Richard Haynes | 93

"Love Saves from Isolation": Ozaki ToÅmei and His Journey from Nagasaki to Auschwitz and Back

Gwyn McClelland | 112

Part II: Literature and Testimony

"Nagasaki" in Akutagawa Ryu±nosuke's Taisho-Era Literary Imagination

Anri Yasuda | 131

Lambs of God, Ravens of Death, Rafts of Corpses:

Three Visions of Trauma in Nagasaki Survivor Poetry

Chad R. Diehl | 151

Listening to the Dead and Filling the Void: The Prayer and Activism of Akizuki Tatsuichiro

Maika Nakao | 179

Breaking New Ground in Nagasaki: Seirai Yuichi's Ground Zero Literature

Michele M. Mason | 191

Part III: Sites of Memory

Fragmented Memory:

The Scattering of the Urakami Cathedral Ruins among Nagasaki's Memorial Landscape

Anna Gasha | 215

One Fine Day: The Allied Occupation of Nagasaki and "Madame Butterfly House"

Brian Burke-Gaffney | 243

The Titan and the Arch:Regulating Public Memory through the Peace Statue

Nanase Shirokawa | 264

Part IV: Reflections

How I Came to Criticize Nagai Takashi's Urakami Holocaust Theory

Shinji Takahashi | 295

On Rereleasing The Bells of Nagasaki to the World

Tokusaburo Nagai | 312

Acknowledgments | 319

List of Contributors | 323

Index | 327

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Chad R. Diehl
• Collaboration: Chad R Diehl (Editeur), Chad R. Diehl (Editeur)
• Edition: Fordham University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9781531504953
• ISBN: 978-1-5315-0495-3
• Pages: 368
• Thème: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
• Catégorie: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres