Dispatches from dystopia : histories of places not yet forgotten

The author "wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version -- the real or the virtual -- is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanes...

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Main Author: Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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505 0 |a Being there -- The Panama Hotel, Japanese America, and the irrepressible past -- History (im)possible in the Chernobyl zone -- Bodily secrets -- Sacred space in a sullied garden -- Gridded lives: why Kazakhstan and Montana are nearly the same place -- Returning home to Rustalgia. 
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