Tag: Hiroshima Maidens

• Saving Face: Death, Necropolitics and the Hiroshima Maidens

  

  Dr Becky Alexis-Martin introduces the Hiroshima Maidens. Their happiness was fundamental to state in diverting attention from the harm caused by the American attack upon Hiroshima. They were given a Western “rebirth” in the USA, their otherness neutralised by reconstructing them socially, culturally, and to some extent even physically in the image of the American…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/03/2018

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  Aesthetic, Atomic Bomb, Death, Gender, Gender Roles, Hibakusha, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Maidens, Japan, Media, Necropolitics, USA, Victims, War, Western Perception, World History