Lisa Yoneyama: 2 books
Hiroshima Traces
Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 1999
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...
Cold War Ruins
Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture." A product of failed post-World War II transitional justice that left...