The Shadow

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Lindsay Barrett

Abstract

 ‘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.

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New Writing (Peer Reviewed)
Author Biography

Lindsay Barrett, University of Western Sydney

 Lindsay Barrett is a member of the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. He has the distinction of having had funding for his research vetoed by the former Minister for Education, Science and Training, Brendan Nelson, on the grounds that it was not in the national interest.