Hiroshima Traces Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory

Name: Hiroshima Traces Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory
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ISBN: 9780520085879

ISBN-10: 0520085876

ISBN-13: 9780520085879

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lisa Yoneyama

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Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories--including history textbook controversies, discourses on the city's tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins, survivors' testimonial practices, ethnic Koreans' narratives on Japanese colonialism, and the feminized discourse on peace--in order to illuminate the politics of knowledge about the past and present. In the way battles over…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 301
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Prologue


Introduction



Cartographies of Memory



Taming the Memoryscape



Memories in Ruins



Storytellers



On Testimonial Practices



Mnemonic Detours



Memory and Positionality



Ethnic and Colonial Memories: The Korean Atom Bomb Memorial



Postwar Peace and the Feminization of Memory


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index