Ciało w stanie rozpadu. Doświadczenie bomby atomowej w relacjach hibakusha
A Decomposing Body. Experience of the Atomic Bomb in Hibakusha’s Reports

Summary/Abstract: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are a symbolic source of alllater views on a nuclear holocaust. The specificity of the Japanese narratives, however,lies in the fact that they take the first-person form, and thus they give a direct testimony ofthe individuals’ experience. In the article I refer to the personal accounts of the victimsof the atomic bomb (the so-called hibakusha) to prove that corporeality is employed inthem as the primary category of description, and functions as the existential ground onwhich both the horror of the explosion is constructed, and the collapse of the “world of life”of the community is experienced.

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