Hiroshima Traces

Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory

Author: Lisa Yoneyama
ISBN: 9780520085879

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 memories have been expressed as material struggles over the cityscape itself, we see that not all share the dominant remembering of Hiroshima's disaster, with its particular sense of pastness, nostalgia, and modernity. The politics of remembering, in Yoneyama's analysis, is constituted by multiple and c

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 1999

Subjects: History / Asia / General, History / Military / World War II, Literary Collections / Asian / General, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese

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