The Japanese term "Genbaku Bungaku " describes a literary trend that could translate as "literature of the atomic bomb," and as the name suggests is poetry or novels published by Japanese authors in the wake of the two bombs dropped on civilians in 1945 and who speak or are essentially of this event and its consequences.
does not include texts, essays and novels have spoken Western narrative axis or taken as fact. The devastating effect that was what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the collective imagination of the country created a genre that is divided into three distinct stages.
The first star in writers who survived directly to one of the two atomic blasts: Shinoa Soda, Sadako Kurihara, Tamiki Hara (author of "Natsu no Hana / Summer Flower "), and Yoko Ota are some of the names of this school.
The second trend includes writers who talk about political and social consequences that caused the devastation: Yoshie Hotta, Momo Lida, Kenzaburo Oe , Masuji Ibusa (Perhaps best known in the West for his devastating novel "Kuroi Ame / Black Rain") and Ineke Sata are the leading names in this way.
The last stage of the atomic bomb literature focuses its attention on what a post-nuclear world and the new conditions that the survivors would be found. Here we can point to writers such as Kobo Abe, Makoto Oda or Mitsuharu Inoue.
In this page you can find a selection of authors and works to dig a little deeper in this current arose pain and disaster that caused the two atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese population in World War II.
All information has been collected through Wikipedia and Google Books.
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