Nagasaki: life after nuclear war

Abstract

In <i>Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War</i>, Susan Southard, a Master of Fine Arts in journalism, has written a chronological treatment of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a non-paradigmatic event. <i>Nagasaki</i> composes a narrative derived mainly from interviews completed by Southard with five survivors of the bombing. Southard’s quest is to make this story known in the United States, in order to correct a skewed narrative. Southard describes her methodology for this project as history by memoir, and she suggests that the agenda of the hibakusha survivor is ‘to prevent nuclear horrors from taking place in the future’.