Description This book is about Korean survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Although little-known, approximately 1 in 10 people victimized by the bombs were Koreans who had come to Japan […]
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Oral histories of North and South American survivors of the atomic bombs
Description Consisting of fifty-six oral histories of survivors collected by Mexico-based artist Shinpei Takeda from 2005 to 2010, as well as seventy-three oral histories of U.S. survivors and their supporters collected by US historian Naoko […]
Cris sur le Bayou: Naissance d’une Poésie Acadienne en Louisiane
Description A number of works in this anthology of Cajun French poetry treat the expulsion of Acadian French settlers from Novia Scotia beginning in 1755, known as the Grand Dérangement. Many of the poems testify […]
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence
Description “A fractured meditation on the incompleteness and inadequacy of each possible response to collective atrocities,” is how the author of this work describes what she has written, and it is an apt description. It […]
Death and the Maiden
Description A play written by the Argentine-Chilean playwrite and activist, Ariel Dorfman. It tells the story of a woman confronting the man who allegedly took part in her torture under the previous, dictatorial regime. The […]