Hiroshima : the origins of global memory culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zwigenberg, Ran, 1976-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Japan : 1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1939-1945 Collective memory > Japan > Hiroshima-shi. Atomic bomb victims > Japan > Hiroshima-shi. Memorials > Japan > Hiroshima-shi. Peace > Political aspects > Japan. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography. War victims > Mental health. Collective memory > Case studies. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Moral and ethical aspects. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Historiography. Case studies. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The bright flash of peace : city planning, commemoration and politics in Hiroshima, 1945-1955
Modernity's angst : survivors between shame and pride, 1945-1960
Socialist bombs and peaceful atoms : exhibiting modernity and fighting for peace in Hiroshima, 1955-1962
Wounds of the heart : Robert Lifton, PTSD and the psychiatric reassessment of survivors and trauma
The Hiroshima-Auschwitz Peace March
A sacred ground for peace : violence, tourism and the sanctification of the Peace Park, 1963-1975
Peeling red apples : the Hiroshima-Auschwitz Committee and the Hiroshima-Auschwitz Museum, 1973-1995
Conclusion: The other Ground Zero? Hiroshima, Auschwitz, 9/11 and the world between them.

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