American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Cambridge University Press, 6/24/2021
EAN 9781108835275, ISBN10: 1108835279
Hardcover, 408 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
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.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Text
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Cities of Immigrants
2. Remembering the Nuclear Holocaust
3. Reconnecting Families
4. War and Work Across the Pacific
5. Finding Survivorhood
6. Endlessness of Radiation Illness
Epilogue
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index.