Surviving our catastrophes : resilience and renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 pandemic
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
155.935/LIFTON,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : The New Press, 2023
DESCRIPTION
xxxvii, 150 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781620978153, 1620978156 :, 1620978156, 9781620978153
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Catastrophe and survivors -- The prophetic survivors of Hiroshima -- The struggle for meaning -- Rejecting catastrophe and survival -- The mourning paradox -- Activist witnessing -- The legacy of survivors -- Afterword: imagining the real
"A powerful rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of "survivor power" to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and collectively heal"--