Graduation Year
2017
Date of Submission
4-2017
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Literature
Reader 1
Christine Crockett
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© 2017 Kanako Shimizu
Abstract
This study of atomic-bomb literature on Hiroshima will be through a critical lens, largely through postcolonial theory and reader-response criticism. It will be a discussion on the social and political implications behind the popularization of certain works. The discussed texts will not necessarily be written by the Japanese or by survivors of the atomic bomb: in the first case, I will be examining authorial intent and its relation to the intended reader responses from the implied American audience to study perpetuations of propaganda after the war. This paper will also be examining the interlingual translatability of psychological and physical trauma surrounding the atomic bomb and will be exploring the capacities of language to express an emotional and often sensitive topic.
Recommended Citation
Shimizu, Kanako, "Above and Below the Sky: Examining Representations of the Atomic Bomb in Japan and in the United States" (2017). CMC Senior Theses. 1601.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1601
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
