Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article explores the limitations of John Hersey's influential account of the effects of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. This is done by foregrounding the consumerist iconography of New Yorker advertisements, which ran alongside "Hiroshima" in August 1946, as a symbol of the contradictions of post-war liberalism. Hersey’s journalistic ethic and aesthetic of "immediacy" runs up against a dominant discourse capable of framing even socially critical sentiment as but one more commodity.
Repository Citation
Craig, Christopher D.. "The New Yorker's 'Hiroshima': Tiffany Diamonds, Caribbean Cruises, and the Atomic Bomb." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1–23. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss1/14