‘The atomic landscape … does not allow me to rest’: Kurihara Sadako and the Hibakusha Poet as Public Intellectual

By | 1 February 2017

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Part of this essay was delivered for the Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC) public lecture series, when I was a Visiting Fellow at Sophia University, Tokyo in 2014.

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