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Hiroshima - The Origins of Global Memory Culture (Hardcover)
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Hiroshima - The Origins of Global Memory Culture (Hardcover)
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In 1962, a Hiroshima peace delegation and an Auschwitz survivor's
organization exchanged relics and testimonies, including the bones
and ashes of Auschwitz victims. This symbolic encounter, in which
the dead were literally conscripted in the service of the politics
of the living, serves as a cornerstone of this volume, capturing
how memory was utilized to rebuild and redefine a shattered world.
This is a powerful study of the contentious history of remembrance
and the commemoration of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in the
context of the global development of Holocaust and World War II
memory. Emphasizing the importance of nuclear issues in the fifties
and sixties, Zwigenberg traces the rise of global commemoration
culture through the reconstruction of Hiroshima as a 'City of
Bright Peace', memorials and museums, global tourism, developments
in psychiatry, and the emergence of the figure of the
survivor-witness and its consequences for global memory practices.
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