Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Redaktion: Rosenbaum, Roman; Claremont, Yasuko

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of a century, and the role of art and activism in maintaining a critical perspective on the dangers of the nuclear age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000878820
• Artikelnr.: 67686188

Autorenporträt

Roman Rosenbaum, PhD is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, Australia. He specialises in Postwar Japanese Literature, Popular Cultural Studies and translation. His latest research publication includes The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga:The Visual Literacy of Statecraft (Routledge, 2020). Yasuko Claremont, PhD in Japanese literature, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, was curator for the exhibition, Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age, April/May 2022 at the Tin Sheds Gallery. Her forthcoming book, The Asia Pacific War: Impact, Legacy, and Reconciliation , will be published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Raison D'être of the Arts in the Nuclear World 2. Anti-Nuclear Movements and Education for Peace and Human Rights 3. Interrogating the Nuclear Industry, Local and Global: Tsushima Yuko's Post-3.11 Writing 4. Contemporary Perspectives on the Nuclear World, Seventy-Five Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Manga as Nuclear Art 5. Anti-Nuclear Activism Through the Arts in Japan 6. Hiroshima Museums: Atomic Artifacts on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary 7. Silence and Resilience: Commemorating Nagasaki Alongside the 'Extraordinary Noise' of the Olympics and Under the Covid-19 'Mushroom Cloud' 8. An Apocalypse Through Australian Eyes: the Art and Objets Trouvés of Occupied Hiroshima 9. Genbaku Legacy in Post-3.11 Japan: ta Y ko and Yoshida Chia 10. The Unquiet Legacy of Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia 11. Scientific Activism in the Nuclear Age: Atuhiro Sibatini and the Ranger Uranium Mine 12. Epilogue: Celebrating Nuclear Activism and the Power of the Individual