Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world\'s first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama\'s sensitive investigation of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories-including history textbook controversies, discourses on the city\'s tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins, survivors\' testimonial prac.
Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world\'s first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama\'s sensitive investigation of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories-including history textbook controversies, discourses on the city\'s tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins, survivors\' testimonial prac
