Hiroshima and Here

Reflections on Australian Atomic Culture

Monash University (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8759-4 (ISBN)

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This study provides a cultural history of Australia and nuclear power. The author examines the country’s role as a nuclear test site, the aspirations of the nation toward the postwar nuclear club, its deference to the demands of Britain and the United States, and the complex discourses of Australian society surrounding nuclear power.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	11 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4985-8759-3 / 1498587593
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-8759-4 / 9781498587594
Zustand	Neuware