Title American survivors : trans-Pacific memories of Hiroshima & Nagasaki / Naoko Wake

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Text -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Cities of Immigrants -- 2 Remembering the Nuclear Holocaust -- 3 Reconnecting Families -- 4 War and Work Across the Pacific -- 5 Finding Survivorhood -- 6 Endlessness of Radiation Illness -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Index 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 Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 02, 2021) Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans. Americans -- Japan Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi Americans Atomic bomb victims Japanese Americans Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives, American Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives, American Japan Japan -- Hiroshima-shi Japan -- Nagasaki-shi Genre/Form Personal narratives History Personal narratives Personal narratives. Récits personnels. Form Electronic book ISBN 110888055X 9781108892094 1108892094 9781108799904 1108799906 9781108880558

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