| Description |
xix, 487 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Atrocity into Words -- 2. Genre and Post-Hiroshima Representation -- 3. The Three Debates -- 4. Hara Tamiki and the Documentary Fallacy -- 5. Poetry Against Itself -- 6. Ota Yoko and the Place of the Narrator -- 7. Oe Kenzaburo: Humanism and Hiroshima --8. Ibuse Masuji: Nature, Nostalgia, Memory -- 9. Nagasaki and the Human Future -- 10. The Atomic, the Nuclear, and the Total: Oda Makoto -- 11. Concluding Remarks: And Then |
| Summary |
Treat summarizes the Japanese contribution to such ongoing international debates as the crisis of modern ethics, the relationship of experience to memory, and the possibility of writing history. This Japanese perspective, he shows, both confirms and amends many of the assertions made in the West on the shift that the death camps and nuclear weapons have jointly signaled for the modern world and for the future |
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From Einstein and Truman to Sartre and Derrida, many have declared the atomic bombings 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. Until now the responses of the one people subjected to nuclear war have gone largely unknown outside of Japan. 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 day. He includes works from the earliest survivor writers, including Hara Tamiki and Ota Yoko, to such important Japanese intellectuals today as Oe Kenzaburo and Oda Makoto |
| Analysis |
Japanese literature Special subjects Wars |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-474) and index |
| Subject |
Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| SUBJECT |
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738 -- Literature and the bombardment
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007157 -- Literature and the bombardment
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007157
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| LC no. |
94018403 |
| ISBN |
0226811778 (alk. paper) |
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