| Author: | Treat, John Whittier | Place: | Chicago |
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| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press | Year: | 1995 | Page: | 487 |
Treat, John Whittier. Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb . , , . Pp. 487
This is the first complete critique on atomic bomb literature written by John W. Treat, a non-Japanese researcher. Treat introduces a number of Japanese writers: in Chapter 4, "Hara Tamiki and the Documentary Fallacy" — Treat reviews some aspects of Hara Tamiki's life; in Chapter 5, "Poetry Against Itself" — Kurihara Sadako, Toge Sankichi and Shoda Shinoe were Hiroshima poets in the early days after the war; in Chapter 6, "Ota Yoko and the Place of the Narrator," — Ota Yoko is one of the representative authors of atomic bomb literature; in Chapter 7, "Oe Kenzaburo: Humanism and Hiroshima," — Oe Kenzaburo is a Japanese intellectual for atomic bomb literature; in Chapter 8, "Nature, Nostalgia, Memory," — Ibuse Masuji is the author of Black Rain, which is Japan's best-known novel in atomic-bomb literature; in Chapter 9: “Nagasaki and the Human Future,” —Nagasaki writers such as Nagai Takashi, Hayashi Kyoko, Goto Minako, and Sata Ineko.