When We Say “Hiroshima”

Selected Poems

AvSadako Kurihara

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

Del i serien Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

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Kurihara Sadako is one of the poetic giants of the nuclear age. Born in Hiroshima in 1913, she was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. From then till now she has addressed her poetry primarily to issues of nuclear destruction, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power. Herself a victim of the world’s first nuclear attack, she became the poetic conscience of the Hiroshima that was no more. But Kurihara turned her attention soon to more controversial issues, including Japan’s role as victimizer in World War II. Many of her poems attack the Japanese government and its policies then and now. When We Say “Hiroshima” contains a selection of the poems Kurihara wrote between 1942 and 1989. They include meditations on death, on survival, on nuclear radiation, on Japanese politics, on American foreign policy, and on women’s issues.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-03-02
Mått:127 x 191 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
Antal sidor:74
Förlag:The University of Michigan Press
ISBN:9780939512898
Översättare:Richard Minear

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Richard Minear is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A specialist on Japanese intellectual history and on the Pacific War, he has translated Requiem for Battleship Yamato (1985) and the survivor-accounts of t

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"From a compelling female perspective, her poems take on death, nuclear annihilation, the Japanese role as a victimizer during the war, U.S. foreign policy, and issues of survival in a violent world."--New York Theatre Wire, www.nytheatre-wire.com