Hiroshima Elegy by Hong, Kai

Hiroshima Elegy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781477530634)

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Hiroshima Elegy by Hong, Kai

Hiroshima Elegy

$25.00
Hiroshima Elegy by Hong, Kai

Hiroshima Elegy

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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'Remember Hiroshima' has been the familiar slogan in any Post WWII Anti-Nuclear Peace Rallies all over the world. But have we really ever asked the true meaning of this simple English noun phrase? The author and playwright, Kai Hong uncovers a semantic dimension of this familiar, often-heard peace-march slogan and argues for an alternative interpretation of that momentous historical event of Hiroshima A-Bomb Boming of August 6, 1945. This book is composed of a Brechtian political play in which the tragic story of a Korean A-Bomb victim from Hiroshima and a scholarly essay, devoted a new semantic and historical interpretations of that event in contradistinction to what are the standard historical approaches to understanding that critical event such as the ones offered by John Hersey, James Lifton and/or other liberal journalistic accounts. Kai Hong also disagrees with what Alain Resnai and Margaret Duras tried to do in their acclaimed 'art' film, HIROSHIMA MON ARMOUR, created in the guise of a 'false documentary'. Kai Hong play has been produced many times in UK, in Korea every year, in Germany, Hungary and elsewhere.

Author: Kai Hong
ISBN-10: 1477530630
ISBN-13: 9781477530634
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/27/2012
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d
By Kai Hong
By Kai Hong
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Kai's cycle of four plays, Nostoi or the Children of Fire has been directed by the famed Hungarian Film&Theatre Director, Miklos Jansco, during 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul as its centerpiece art/cultural event. Its outdoor performance on an ancient Palace Ground in Seoul was a talk around the world, then. The filmed version of the same performance was broadcast over Korea and Hungary as a co-production between their National TV Networks of KBS and Magjar TVs. Hiroshima Elegy was produced many times as I AM A HIBAKUSHA or under some other names in UK, Korea, Hungary, West Germany and Japan. It was also made into a two-part Televsion film by KBS in 1990. His other play, UNAPPEASED, had its World Premier at Cambridge, UK in 1986, based upon the story of Korean Comfort Women, forced into prostitution by Japanese Army for Japanese Soldiers and Officers during WWII, but articulated in the format of Ancient Greek Aeschylian Theatre together with some other stylistic elements borrowed from Brecht. New Statesman wrote of it: "Brecht and Eisler would have applauded, were they in the audience."

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