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The "Inheritance" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Rethinking the Bombings towards a Post-Survivor World
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eBook - ePub
The "Inheritance" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Rethinking the Bombings towards a Post-Survivor World
About this book
With 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this timely study focuses on the challenge of keisho or 'inheritance' and the way a new generation of scholars and activists is re-examining the meaning of the A-bomb and the 80-year history of commemoration and activism in the stricken cities. Using a team of scholars based in the USA and Japan, many of who are academics from this new generation, The 'Inheritance' of Hiroshima and Nagasaki takes a critical look at the problem of inheritance and the current transitory moment in A-bomb commemoration and nuclear scholarship by looking at a range of historical topics from the 80-year history of post-atomic Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and beyond. The book does this by: examining historical memory in a way that disengages the two cities from a Japanese-national memory perspective by looking at global connections, on one hand, and the local history of the two cities; re-thinking the history of survivors, their experience, and their movement; and, finally, exploring material culture and the problem of inheritance and legacy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Language
- Glossary
- Introduction: Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the Eightieth Anniversary of the Bombing
- PART I Reconstruction of Memory/Memory of Reconstruction
- 1 Immigrants’ Ties to Their Homeland: Hiroshiman Traders and Japanese American Communities in the Early Postwar Years
- 2 Masculinity and Gender in the Reconstruction of Hiroshima
- 3 A Tale of Two Churches: Catholic Atomic Ruins, Fundraising, and Trans-Pacific Relationality
- 4 Shōgen as Witnessing and Fukugen as Reclaiming: Breaking the “Silence” of Nagasaki
- PART II Hibakusha beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 5 Surviving the A-Bomb in Japanese America: Politics, Expertise, and Nuclear Visions
- 6 The Bomb’s Slow Violence: The Rise of Diasporic Memories and Transnational Activism
- 7 Trans/National Nuclear Colonialisms: Revisiting Village of Widows
- 8 The Metaphor of Blood and Discrimination Against Hibakusha: A Hermeneutical Lacuna in Japan’s Social Order
- PART III Material and Immaterial Inheritance
- 9 Visualizing Nagasaki: Art, Ekphrasis, and Postmemory
- 10 Ihin: The Sanctification of A-Bomb Objects in the Hiroshima Museum
- 11 Bodies for Eulogy and Investigation: Science, Religion, and Atomic Bomb Victims in Postwar Nagasaki
- 12 Atomic Memeification: “Hiroshima” as a Unit of Measure
- 13 From a Means to an End: The History of Inheriting the A-Bomb Experience in Hiroshima
- Epilogue
- Index
- Notes on Contributors
- Copyright
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