Writing ground zero : Japanese literature and the atomic bomb / John Whittier Treat.
Writing ground zero : Japanese literature and the atomic bomb / John Whittier Treat.
Writing ground zero : Japanese literature and the atomic bomb / John Whittier Treat.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N895.609358/1
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English
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xix, 487 p. : ill. ; 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...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
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Illinois
Date Published
1995.
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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...
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Writing ground zero : Japanese literature and the atomic bomb / John Whittier Treat.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-474) and index.
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N895.609358/1
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74VMxVOBG8Ld
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0226811778 (alk. paper)
9780226811772 (alk. paper)
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895.609358
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991002702409702626
