The victim as hero : ideologies of peace and national identity in postwar Japan

✍ Scribed by Orr, James Joseph

Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 281
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Victims, victimizers, and mythology --
Leaders and victims: personal war responsibility during the occupation --
Hiroshima and Yuiitsu no hibakukoku: atomic victimhood in the antinuclear peace movement --
Educating a peace-loving people: narratives of war in postwar textbooks --
"Sentimental humanism": the victim in novels and film --
Compensating victims: the politics of victimhood --
Beyond postwar.

✦ Subjects

Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi;Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi;Atomic bomb -- Japan -- Psychological aspects;Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945;Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945;Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1945-;Victimologie;Nationale identiteit;Collectief geheugen;Pacifisme;Atomic bomb;Atomic bomb victims;Intellectual life;Japan;Japan -- Hiroshima-shi;Japan -- Nagasaki-shi

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