Hiroshima

Hiroshima

The Origins of Global Memory Culture

Zwigenberg, Ran (Pennsylvania State University)

Cambridge University Press

09/2014

348

Dura

Inglês

9781107071278

15 a 20 dias

A powerful exploration of the interaction between the history of Hiroshima and the global emergence of a culture of witnessing, trauma and remembrance following World War II. Zwigenberg traces the reconstruction of Hiroshima as a 'City of Bright Peace' against the twentieth-century backdrop of the Cold War and Holocaust memory.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'The most modern city in the world': city planning, commemoration and atomic power in Hiroshima, 1945-55; 2. Modernity's angst: survivors between shame and pride: 1945-60; 3. Socialist bombs and peaceful atoms: exhibiting modernity and fighting for peace in Hiroshima, 1955-62; 4. Healing a sick world: Robert Lifton, PTSD, and the psychiatric reassessment of survivors and trauma; 5. The Hiroshima Auschwitz Peace March and the globalization of victimhood; 6. A sacred ground for peace: violence, tourism and the sanctification of the Peace Park, 1963-75; 7. Peeling the red apple: the Hiroshima Auschwitz Committee and the Hiroshima-Auschwitz museum, 1973-95; Conclusion: the other ground zero? Hiroshima, Auschwitz, 9.11 and the world between them; Index.
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