Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction. Knowledge Production on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Politics of Representation and a Critique of Canonization 1
5. 1. Postcolonial Hiroshima Mon Amour: Franco-Japanese Collaboration in the American Shadow 17
6. 2. Validating and Invalidating the National Sentiment: Kamei Fumio and the Early Days of Japanese Cinema on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 38
7. 3. “You Saw Nothing in Hiroshima”: Performing Atomic Bomb Victimhood and the Visibility of the Hibakusha 64
8. 4. Entangled Discourses: John Hersey and Nagai Takashi 82
9. Afterword 99
10. Notes 105
11. Selected Bibliography 131
12. Index 155
13. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 163