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Historical Trauma : = Literary and Testimonial Responses to Hiroshima.

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Title/Author:	Historical Trauma :/
Reminder of title:	Literary and Testimonial Responses to Hiroshima.
Author:	Ghonim, Mariam Mohamed Barakat Abdelfattah.
Description:	1 online resource (108 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International85-05.
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ISBN:	9798380721271

Historical Trauma : = Literary and Testimonial Responses to Hiroshima.
Ghonim, Mariam Mohamed Barakat Abdelfattah.

Historical Trauma :Literary and Testimonial Responses to Hiroshima. - 1 online resource (108 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--The American University in Cairo (Egypt), 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

The concept of trauma is controversial in literature. While one may be able to come up with ways to describe trauma in fiction, representing historical trauma is a hard task for writers. Some argue that trauma can not be described through those who did not experience it, while others claim that, provided some elements are added, one can represent trauma to the reader. This thesis focuses on twentieth-century historical traumas related to a nuclear catastrophe and explores the different literary and testimonial responses to the catastrophic man-made event of Hiroshima (1945). In this thesis, Kathleen Burkinshaw's historical fiction The Last Cherry Blossom (2016) is used as the primary text while exploring varieties of literary and documentary works, presenting the Hiroshima traumatic events: John Hersey's Hiroshima (1946), Richard H. Minear's Hiroshima: Three Witnesses (1990) -focusing on only two witnesses Hara Tamiki and Ota Yoko- and Steven Okazaki's White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki(2007). Each work differs in genre, narrative, style, and retelling of the nuclear catastrophe while covering a wide spectrum of literary presentations of historical trauma. The thesis compares the different narrative strategies and depictions in relaying traumas to readers who have not experienced the event firsthand. Furthermore, it sheds light on the political agenda of the nuclear catastrophe in Hiroshima, and how it contributed to the trauma of the survivors.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380721271Subjects--Topical Terms:

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