Writing Ground Zero
Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb

A Note on the Illustrations
Introduction
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
9: Nagasaki and the Human Future
10: The Atomic, the Nuclear, and the Total: Oda Makoto
11: Concluding Remarks: And Then
Notes
References
Index
Assoc of American University Presses: Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award
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AAS Northeast Asia Council: John Whitney Hall Book Prize
Won
History: General History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Asian Languages
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