Nagasaki A-Bomb Literature : Women's Viewpoints and Everydayness

TASAKI Hiroaki

When describing a case of the past in a novel, generally to recollect a past from a point in time is adopted now as "the narration" form. On that occasion, "the narration" will often inevitably be tinged with a tint of a certain "sequel." The historical event of the dropping of the a-bomb and its dire consequences, along with the passage of time, has tended to show an increase in the telling of the event in the form of a recollection. Thus, this means the present state of the a-bomb victims described can be read by the reader as the "sequel" to the a-bomb. However, after 1970, a quarter of century having passed after the nuclear bombing, Nagasaki a-bomb literature written by the female writers, Ineko Sata, Minako Goto, and Kyoko Hayashi, cannot be allowed to be put in the category of a simple sequel. They picture the fear brought by an atomic bomb and that dark fate which still continues routinely as a current problem because it is renewed every day. Their works succeed to make this large problem of the nuclear-age clear by being told from the viewpoint of a woman whose very sex is tied to the birth and raising of children as well as deeply with the future.

Nagasaki A-Bomb Literature : Women's Viewpoints and Everydayness

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