It has been argued that during the Cold War era scholarship was limited by the anxiety that authors felt about the possibility of a global thermonuclear war, and the role their scholarship could play in obstructing such an event. This edited volume reconsiders the importance of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from a post-Cold War perspective.
Introduction: on Hiroshima becoming historyġ Contested spaces of ethnicity: zainichi Korean accounts of the atomic bombingsĢ Memory and survival in everyday textures-Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshimaģ The most modern city in the world: Isamu Noguchi’s cenotaph controversy and Hiroshima’s city of peaceĤ Hiroshima remediated: nuclear cosmopolitan memory in The War Game (1965) and “The Museum of Ante-Memorials” (2012)Ħ Nagasaki re-imagined: the last shall be firstħ The atomic gaze and Ankoku Butoh in post-war JapanĨ Australian POW and Occupation force experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a digital hyper-visualisationĩ In the light of Hiroshima: banalizing violence and normalizing experiences of the atomic bombingġ0 Hiroshima and the paradoxes of Japanese nuclear perplexityġ2 Witnessing Nagasaki for the second timeġ3 Antimonument: a short reflection on writings by Marcela Quiroz and Ryuta Imafuku
