Chris Shea
ENG 474
Professor Aimee Pozorski
02/08/17
Abstract of Patrick B. Sharp’s From Yellow Peril to Japanese Wasteland: John Hersey's “Hiroshima”
In his essay From Yellow Peril to Japanese Wasteland: John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”, Patrick B. Sharp describes how John Hersey fits the characteristics of a modernist author who sympathizes with the Japanese through his 1946 work Hiroshima. He initially contrasts Hersey’s work from the narratives brought upon by popular American works Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon which he says paint the Japanese as the evil ‘Yellow Peril’ and portray the scientists and soldiers who defeat them as heroes, while Hersey’s work portrays Japanese and German clergymen, doctors, and other ordinary citizens as heroes in