The Magnified Body of Survival

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_703
dc.contributor.author	Comotti Francesco
dc.title	The Magnified Body of Survival. Tracing Communication Paradigms in Hiroshima and Nagasaki's Storytelling
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This essay concerns a number of problematic aspects of literary communication within works of literature about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Specifically, it tries to compare and put into perspective the different approaches and motivations by authors who are also survivors and readers who are not into the literary text, when what is at stake is the knowledge of extremely violent experiences as Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s bombings. After a partial survey of writings about the atomic bombings produced outside the two cities by non-survivours, the essay will focus on some characteristic traits of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s witness literature, in the light of which the paradigm of literary communication will be questioned and integrated to account also for the difficult relationship between the act of writing something that resists being put into words, and the attempt at participation that is the act of reading.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-05-31
dc.dateAccepted	2017-04-06
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-03-05
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-150-8/the-magnified-body-of-survival/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-151-5/CFJS-6-9
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-150-8
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-151-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Atomic Bomb
dc.subject	Atomic Bomb
dc.subject	Hiroshima
dc.subject	Hiroshima
dc.subject	Literary Theory
dc.subject	Literary Theory
dc.subject	Nagasaki
dc.subject	Nagasaki
dc.subject	Storytelling
dc.subject	Storytelling
dc.subject	Witness Literature
dc.subject	Witness Literature

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The Magnified Body of Survival

Tracing Communication Paradigms in Hiroshima and Nagasaki's Storytelling

Francesco Comotti Liceo Linguistico “Giovanni Falcone” di Bergamo, Italia

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abstract

This essay concerns a number of problematic aspects of literary communication within works of literature about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Specifically, it tries to compare and put into perspective the different approaches and motivations by authors who are also survivors and readers who are not into the literary text, when what is at stake is the knowledge of extremely violent experiences as Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s bombings. After a partial survey of writings about the atomic bombings produced outside the two cities by non-survivours, the essay will focus on some characteristic traits of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s witness literature, in the light of which the paradigm of literary communication will be questioned and integrated to account also for the difficult relationship between the act of writing something that resists being put into words, and the attempt at participation that is the act of reading.

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April 6, 2017

Submitted

March 5, 2017

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978-88-6969-150-8

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978-88-6969-151-5

Keywords: Literary Theory • Atomic Bomb • Storytelling • Witness Literature • Hiroshima • Nagasaki

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