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positions (1994) 2 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 1994
...William Hover Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 1 A World of Corpses: From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to AIDS William Haver [Pllagues are never just medico...
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positions (1994) 2 (1): 133–174.
Published: 01 February 1994
...Earl Jackson, Jr. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Desire at Cross(-Cultural) Purposes: Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Merry Christmus, Mr. Luwrence Earl Jackson Jr. The films whose titles appear above may seem unpromising territory...
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 863–878.
Published: 01 August 1997
...John Whittier Treat Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The Enola Guy on Display: Hiroshima and American Memory John Whittier Treat The lines were long in Washington the summer of 1995. The National Museum of American History...
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 507–526.
Published: 01 August 2017
... the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. Though the sojourn itself deserves restitution to the annals of South African literary history, its true value, the author argues, does not lie in enlarging our understanding of literary trends associated with the interwar years so much as isolating...
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positions (2002) 10 (1): 173–194.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Leslie Pincus 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 A Salon for the Soul: Nakai Masakazu and the Hiroshima Culture Movement Leslie Pincus It was as if the intellectuals who took refuge in the countryside had been set adrift in unfamiliar seas...
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 127–157.
Published: 01 February 2009
... either overlooked in favor of his postwar activities in the Hiroshima Culture Movement or seen as mainly engaging in a politics of building some type of counterhegemony or collective resistance against fascism through his organization of periodicals inspired by the Popular Front in Europe...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 907–930.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and the memories of the characters that they are playing. Each actor effectively plays a character that is modeled after his or her own life. The film is loosely adapted from Alain Resnais's 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour and appropriates many of the elements in it, including, most significantly, haunting...
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 779–809.
Published: 01 August 1997
... showing physical and human damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and general observations about the subsequent development of the atomic age and nuclear-weapons proliferation.3 Let us begin by examining two strikingly similar, yet...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 265–304.
Published: 01 May 2018
... kenkō kanri chōsa no yami . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten . Hiroshima . [1953] 2013 . Hideo Sekigawa Dir. . Tokyo : Nishikyōgumi puro (Japan Teachers’ Union) / Shin Nippon Eigasha (New Japan Film Company) . Homei Aya . 2007 . “ Fallout from Bikini: The Explosion of Japanese Medicine...
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 261–302.
Published: 01 May 1998
...- the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the emperor’s so-called divine decision to terminate the war-provided the grounds upon which the Jap- anese wartime leadership would found a narrative that could explain away the tension created by its...
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 672–685.
Published: 01 August 1997
... weapons and nuclear power. They were contained in a book titled Hiroshima- Nagasaki, edited by Tsutomu Iwakura (whom I later sought out and met), a book thick with photographs and paintings depicting the atomic bomb- ings of Hiroshima...
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 834–862.
Published: 01 August 1997
... grade history class, about the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I never knew what thoughts filled their minds as they all turned around backward in their chairs to look at me; as the tallest girl in a classroom...
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 433–438.
Published: 01 August 2017
... demands scholars know the material and the temporal given conditions as well as a theory of affect. Daniel McKay’s “The Hot Sun and the Mad Moon: Hiroshima in South African Literature” offers a critique of globalized clichés. The article...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 235–252.
Published: 01 February 2005
... a “Hiroshima in America.” Some sections touch on Mohamed Atta, one of the executors of the 9/11 attacks, and some provide details of the various meanings given to the symbolism of the incident. In any event, the initial plan was to drop the planes onto...
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 131–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of existence, battles for survival in postapocalyptic worlds. But do these scenarios allow us any critical or historical distance from the trauma of nuclear destruction (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and nuclear esca- lation (the nuclear testing and arms...
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positions (1994) 2 (1): v–xi.
Published: 01 February 1994
... in a reading of Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence through multiple relocations of several subject positions in these films. In making clear that Hiroshima, Mon Amour is “Hiroshima [=I My Love,” Jackson asks...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 125–135.
Published: 01 February 2005
... discuss Prophecy, the documentary about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The fireball. The dead bodies choking the river. The living stripped of skin and hair. The singed, bald children, still alive, their clothes positions 13:1 © 2005...
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 745–778.
Published: 01 August 1997
.... Comparable ambiguities arise at Hiroshima’s Korean Atom Bomb Memo- rial. As Lisa Yoneyama has observed of the debates over that memorial’s form and content, “minority memories” of Korean victims of the atomic attack not only disrupt...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 285–314.
Published: 01 February 1997
... in literature. We met for the first time for the NHK [Nihon H6s6 Kyokai: The Japanese Broadcasting Corporation] special “Does the World Remember Hiroshima?” in 1990. I remember attacking you then, from the very beginning, about the theme...
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 323–349.
Published: 01 May 2017
... tsunawatari , 366 – 75 . Tokyo : Bungei Shunju . Ōe Kenzaburō . [1965] 1981 . Hiroshima Notes . Edited by Swain David L. , translated by Yonezawa Toshi . Tokly : YMCA . Ōe Kenzaburō . 1990 . Sakebigoe . Tokyo : Kōdansha . Ōe Kenzaburō . 2007 . “Amerikaron...