Description: An innovative exploration of the legacies of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and the contestation of memories in the two cities and beyond.
Brief description: Ran Zwigenberg is Professor of Asian Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has published multiple works on Hiroshima, beginning with his prize-winning monograph, Hiroshima: The Rise of Global Memory Culture (2014), which addresses survivor politics, trauma, and heritage issues.
Review Quotes: "Eighty years on, as the immediacy of the past continues to fade, this timely anthology explores important questions of how, why, and which aspects of the history of post-nuclear Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be preserved and retold. It represents a significant milestone in Japanese and Japanese studies perspectives." --Lisa Yoneyama, University of Toronto, author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory