American survivors : trans-Pacific memories of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Resource Information

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Label

American survivors : trans-Pacific memories of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Title remainder

trans-Pacific memories of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Statement of responsibility

Naoko Wake

Creator

• Wake, Naoko,
• Wake, Naoko,

Author

• Wake, Naoko,
• Wake, Naoko,

Subject

• Atomic bomb victims
• Atomic bomb victims -- Japan | Hiroshima-shi
• Atomic bomb victims -- Japan | Hiroshima-shi
• Atomic bomb victims -- Japan | Nagasaki-shi
• Atomic bomb victims -- Japan | Nagasaki-shi
• HISTORY / World
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives, American
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives, American
• History
• Japan
• Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
• 1939-1945
• Japanese Americans
• Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives, American
• Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives, American
• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives -- American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
• Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
• Americans
• Americans -- Japan
• Americans -- Japan

Genre

• Personal narratives, American
• Personal narratives
• History

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

YDX

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography