Hiroshima Traces - (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power) by Lisa Yoneyama (Paperback)

The book "Hiroshima Traces" is a thought-provoking investigation into the complex and politicized process of remembering the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack.

The author, Lisa Yoneyama, explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories, including history textbook controversies, discourses on tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins, survivors' testimonial practices, ethnic Koreans' narratives on Japanese colonialism, and the feminized discourse on peace.

Through her analysis, Yoneyama illuminates the politics of knowledge about the past and present, revealing how not all share the dominant remembering of Hiroshima's disaster, with its particular sense of pastness, nostalgia, and modernity.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of memory and its role in shaping our understanding of the past and present.