Writing Ground Zero Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb

Name: Writing Ground Zero Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb
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ISBN: 9780226811789

ISBN-10: 0226811786

ISBN-13: 9780226811789

Edition: 1996

Authors: John Whittier Treat

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From Einstein and Truman to Sartre and Derrida, many have declared the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be decisive events in human history. None, however, have more acutely understood or perceptively critiqued the consequences of nuclear war than Japanese writers. In this first complete study of the nuclear theme in Japanese intellectual and artistic life, John Whittier Treat shows how much we have to learn from Japanese writers and artists about the substance and meaning of the nuclear age. Treat recounts the controversial history of Japanese public discourse around Hiroshima and Nagasaki--a discourse alternatively celebrated and censored--from August 6, 1945, to the present…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 508
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



Preface


A Note on the Illustrations


Introduction



Atrocity into Words



Genre and Post-Hiroshima Representation



The Three Debates



Hara Tamiki and the Documentary Fallacy



Poetry Against Itself



Ota Yoko and the Place of the Narrator



Oe Kenzaburo: Humanism and Hiroshima



Ibuse Masuji: Nature, Nostalgia, Memory



Nagasaki and the Human Future



The Atomic, the Nuclear, and the Total: Oda Makoto



Concluding Remarks: And Then Notes


References


Index