Bibliograph

American survivors, trans-Pacific memories of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Naoko Wake

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American survivors, trans-Pacific memories of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Naoko Wake

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [366]-380) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American survivors

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1201662996

Responsibility statement

Naoko Wake

Sub title

trans-Pacific memories of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Summary

American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the public understanding of nuclear weaponry. A truly trans-Pacific history, American Survivors challenges the dualistic distinction between Americans-as-victors and Japanese-as-victims often assumed by scholars of the nuclear war. Using more than 130 oral histories of Japanese American and Korean American survivors, their family members, community activists, and physicians - most of which appear here for the first time - Naoko Wake reveals a cross-national history of war, illness, immigration, gender, family, and community from intimately personal perspectives. American Survivors brings to light the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that connects, as much as separates, people across time and national boundaries

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