ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I explore the narrative of “reenactment” and the metaphor of the “reenactor” as a mechanism that will allow us to retain what society has learned through often bitter experience. The first section of this chapter attempts to conceptualize “reenactment/reenactor” by invoking the way Terry Tempest Williams uses this idea in her book, The Hour of Land. I apply this concept to Fumiyo Kouno’s manga graphic novel Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms and Barack Obama’s two speeches on “World without Nuclear Weapons” in Prague and Hiroshima to memorialize responses to nuclear contamination.
