Hiroshima: A Love War Story - Softcover

concetta principe writes: Essentially, Hiroshima: A love [strikethrough] war story is a 'working-through' of a period in my past which I lived unconsciously. Being unconscious explains our absorption of historical events, in my case through the political and cultural anxiety of cold war politics and culture. My book reflects the working-through of these things, with a special debt to Margarite Duras for showing us Hiroshima through her personal broken love story. We live in history: it is all around us, abounding in us and binding us, especially in the unconscious way we use language to talk to significant others and in our unconscious understanding of history through the image (film and tv).

concetta principe writes poetry and fiction, with three previous publications, including walking (2013), Interference (1999) and Stained Glass (1997). She received a PhD in Humanities in 2014; a scholarly work came out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. She is a sessional professor of literature / creative writing at York University, and lives in Toronto.