Description
Book SynopsisExplores 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.
Table of ContentsPrologue
Introduction
Phantasmatic Innocence
Tropes of the Nation, Peace, and Humanity
On the Politics of Historical Memory
PART ONE: CARTOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY
I. Taming the Memoryscape
Remapping History
Festivity
2. Memories in Ruins
Postnuclear Hyperreal
Contemplative Time
PART TWO: STORYTELLERS
3· On Testimonial Practices
Speaking the Unspeakable
Naming the Testimonial Subjects
Survivors, Hibakusha, Shogensha:
Multiple Subjectivities
4· Mnemonic Detours
Narrative Margins and Critical Knowledge
Fabulous Memories: The Temporality
of the "Never Again"
Narratives of and for the Dead
PART THREE: MEMORY AND POSITIONALITY
5· Ethnic and Colonial Memories: The Korean
Atom Bomb Memorial
Contentious Memorial
Monument to Homeland
Excess of Memory
The Absent Majority
Memory Matters: "Minzoku"
6. Postwar Peace and the Feminization of Memory
Peace, Nation, and the Maternal
Feminine Dissidents
On Rewriting "Women's" Histories
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
