Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb - John Whittier Treat
From Einstein and Truman to Sartre and Derrida, many have declared the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be decisive events in human history. None, however, have more acutely understood or perceptively critiqued the consequences of nuclear war than Japanese writers. In this first
The Laugh of the Medusa - Hélène Cixous
Cixous is issuing her female readers an ultimatum of sorts: either they can read it and choose to stay trapped in their own bodies by a language that does not allow them to express themselves, or they can use their bodies as a way to communicate. "The Laugh of the Medusa" is an extremely
