Open AccessThe Shadow
Author(s) -
Lindsay Barrett
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v17i2.2000
Subject(s) - shadow (psychology) , modernity , extant taxon , history , event (particle physics) , reflection (computer programming) , art history , order (exchange) , aesthetics , sociology , art , philosophy , epistemology , psychoanalysis , psychology , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , computer science , economics , biology , programming language
‘The Shadow’ is a reflection on the destruction of the city of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb in 1945. It uses personal observation of the extant traces of the event in the contemporary city of Hiroshima, along with a number of historical sources, in order to understand this particular catastrophe as part of the wider experience of modernity in the twentieth century