Monash University

Hiroshima and Here (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on Australian Atomic Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study provides a cultural history of Nuclear Age Australia. The author examines the country's role as a weapons testing site, its ambition to join the postwar nuclear club of nations, the heated controversies surrounding uranium mining and nuclear power, and the rich complexity of Australian cultural response to the fact and possibility of atomic destruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498587600
• Artikelnr.: 60029381

Autorenporträt

Robin Gerster is professor in the School of Languages, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Exile on Uranium Street
Part I: The Aftermath
Chapter 1: Hiroshima around the Corner: Payback and Portent
Chapter 2: Going to Ground Zero: Australians in Occupied Japan
Part II: Australia's Place in the Nuclear Empire
Chapter 3: Our Atomic Home: the 1950s
Chapter 4: The Nuclear Blues: Since the 1960s
Part III: Commemoration and Prophecy
Chapter 5: Hiroshima Revisited: Remembering and Representing "the Bomb"
Chapter 6: Doom Town: Imagining the Nuclear Destruction of Australian
Cities
Conclusion: Apocalypse, and Other Ends