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John Whittier Treat

Writing Ground Zero

Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb

508 pages, 11 halftones  6 x 9  © 1995

Cloth $42.50

ISBN: 9780226811772   Published February 1995

Paper $23.00

ISBN: 9780226811789   Published June 1996

Preface
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
Awards
  • John Whitney Hall Book Prize
  • Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award
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