Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb.
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma |
| Publication | World Literature Today |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0196-3570 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | v69 |
| Issue | n4 |
| Published | 1995-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Yoshio Iwamoto |
| Reviewee | n/a | John Whittier Treat |
In light of the strident controversies that have erupted this year, both in the United States and in Japan, over how to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the Pacific War, the timely appearance of John Treat's Writing Ground Zero takes on greater cogency. A massive, scholarly study of the literature that ensued from the atrocity of the atomic bombs, it is a pathbreaking work that will now need to be reckoned with in any serious debate on the whole issue of how the war, and in particular the bombings, should be...
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