<p><b>How researchers understood the atomic bombβs effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.</b><br> <br> In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the nuclear attack. This marked
Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War
β Scribed by N.A.J. Taylor; Robert Jacobs
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 197
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This edited volume reconsiders the importance of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from a post-Cold War perspective. It has been argued that during the Cold War era scholarship was limited by the anxiety that authors felt about the possibility of a global thermonuclear war, and the role their scholarship could play in obstructing such an event. The new scholarship of Nuclear Humanities approaches this history and its fallout with both more nuanced and integrative inquiries, paving the way towards a deeper integration of these seminal events beyond issues of policy and ethics. This volume, therefore, offers a distinctly post-Cold War perspective on the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The chapters collected here address the memorialization and commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by officials and states, but also ordinary peopleβs resentment, suffering, or forgiveness. The volume presents a variety of approaches with contributions from academics and contributions from authors who are strongly connected to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and its people. In addition, the work branches out beyond the traditional subjects of social sciences and humanities to include contributions on art, photography, and design. This variety of approaches and perspectives provides moral and political insights on the full range of vulnerabilities β such as emotional, bodily, cognitive, and ecological β that pertains to nuclear harm. This book will be of much interest to students of critical war studies, nuclear weapons, World War II history, Asian History and International Relations in general.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: on Hiroshima becoming history
1 Contested spaces of ethnicity: zainichi Korean accounts of the atomic bombings
2 Memory and survival in everyday texturesβIshiuchi Miyakoβs Hiroshima
3 The most modern city in the world: Isamu Noguchiβs cenotaph controversy and Hiroshimaβs city of peace
4 Hiroshima remediated: nuclear cosmopolitan memory in The War Game (1965) and βThe Museum of Ante-Memorialsβ (2012)
5 Nuclear memory
6 Nagasaki re-imagined: the last shall be first
7 The atomic gaze and Ankoku Butoh in post-war Japan
8 Australian POW and Occupation force experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a digital hyper-visualisation
9 In the light of Hiroshima: banalizing violence and normalizing experiences of the atomic bombing
10 Hiroshima and the paradoxes of Japanese nuclear perplexity
11 For granting (a) voice
12 Witnessing Nagasaki for the second time
13 Antimonument: a short reflection on writings by Marcela Quiroz and Ryuta Imafuku
Index
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