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Author Diehl, Chad, author.

Title Resurrecting Nagasaki : reconstruction and the formation of atomic narratives / Chad R. Diehl
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
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Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Contents Envisioning "Nagasaki" : the rise of the municipal vision of reconstruction -- Coexisting in the "valley of death" : American soldiers and Nagasaki residents during the occupation -- The "saint" of Urakami : Nagai Takashi and early representations of the atomic experience -- Writing Nagasaki : the occupation publishing industry, Nagasaki no kane, and atomic narratives -- Walls of silence : the postwar lives and memory activism of the hibakusha -- Ruins of memory : the Urakami cathedral and politics of urban identity
Summary In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl examines the reconstruction of Nagasaki City after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Diehl illuminates the genesis of narratives surrounding the bombing by following the people and groups who contributed to ..
Analysis the aftermath of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, atomic bombs, disaster recovery, nuclear attacks, atomic bomb survivors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 29, 2019)
Subject Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
Collective memory -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
City planning -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
Atomic bomb victims
City planning
Collective memory
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
SUBJECT Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Influence
Subject Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017025760
ISBN 9781501709432
1501709437