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OverviewA critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hiroshima. In the decades following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, the city's residents processed their trauma and formed narratives of the destruction and reconstruction in ways that reflected their regional history and social makeup. In doing so, they created a multi-layered urban identity as an atomic-bombed city that differed markedly from Hiroshima's image. Shadows of Nagasaki traces how Nagasaki's trauma, history, and memory of the bombing manifested through some of the city's many post-atomic memoryscapes, such as literature, religious discourse, art, historical landmarks, commemorative spaces, and architecture. In addition, the book pays particular attention to how the city's history of international culture, exemplified best perhaps by the region's Christian (especially Catholic) past, informed its response to the atomic trauma and shaped its postwar urban identity. Key historical actors in the volume's chapters include writers, Japanese- Catholic leaders, atomic-bombing survivors (known as hibakusha), municipal officials, American occupation personnel, peace activists, artists, and architects. The story of how these diverse groups of people processed and participated in the discourse surrounding the legacies of Nagasaki's bombing shows how regional history, culture, and politics-rather than national ones-become the most influential factors shaping narratives of destruction and reconstruction after mass trauma. In turn, and especially in the case of urban destruction, new identities emerge and old ones are rekindled, not to serve national politics or social interests but to bolster narratives that reflect local circumstances. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chad R. Diehl , Brian Burke-Gaffney , Chad R. Diehl , Anna GashaPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Weight: 0.531kg ISBN: 9781531504960ISBN 10: 1531504965 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 02 January 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Note on Japanese Names | xi Introduction: Imagining Nagasaki: Religion and History in Postatomic Memoryscapes Chad R. Diehl | 1 Part I: Catholic Responses The ""Saint"" of Urakami: Nagai Takashi and Early Representations of the Atomic Experience Chad R. Diehl | 33 Loving Your Neighbor across the Sea: The Reception of the Work of Nagai Takashi in the Republic of Korea Haeseong Park and Franklin Rausch | 70 Faith, Family, Earth, and the Atomic Bomb in the Art of Nagai Takashi Anthony Richard Haynes | 93 ""Love Saves from Isolation"": Ozaki ToÅmei and His Journey from Nagasaki to Auschwitz and Back Gwyn McClelland | 112 Part II: Literature and Testimony ""Nagasaki"" in Akutagawa Ryu±nosuke's Taisho-Era Literary Imagination Anri Yasuda | 131 Lambs of God, Ravens of Death, Rafts of Corpses: Three Visions of Trauma in Nagasaki Survivor Poetry Chad R. Diehl | 151 Listening to the Dead and Filling the Void: The Prayer and Activism of Akizuki Tatsuichiro Maika Nakao | 179 Breaking New Ground in Nagasaki: Seirai Yuichi's Ground Zero Literature Michele M. Mason | 191 Part III: Sites of Memory Fragmented Memory: The Scattering of the Urakami Cathedral Ruins among Nagasaki's Memorial Landscape Anna Gasha | 215 One Fine Day: The Allied Occupation of Nagasaki and ""Madame Butterfly House"" Brian Burke-Gaffney | 243 The Titan and the Arch:Regulating Public Memory through the Peace Statue Nanase Shirokawa | 264 Part IV: Reflections How I Came to Criticize Nagai Takashi's Urakami Holocaust Theory Shinji Takahashi | 295 On Rereleasing The Bells of Nagasaki to the World Tokusaburo Nagai | 312 Acknowledgments | 319 List of Contributors | 323 Index | 327"ReviewsThanks to multidisciplinary approaches, Shadows of Nagasaki situates the historiography of the atomic bombing in a broader context of Nagasaki history and beyond, which demonstrates a new approach to memory-making practice.---Yuki Miyamoto, Professor at Depaul University, and author of Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima Author InformationChad R. Diehl received his PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 2011, specializing in modern Japanese history. He has researched the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and its aftermath since 2003 and published his first monograph, Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives, with Cornell University Press in 2018. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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