| Description |
1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment Ser |
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Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Nuclear Cultures -- Nuclear Cultures -- Literary Fiction -- Survivor/Eyewitness Accounts -- Reportage and Histories -- Visual Texts -- Poetry -- Films -- Auto/biography -- The 'Work' of Nuclear Cultures -- Note -- 2 The Nuclear Subject -- The Irradiated Body -- Toxic Somatography and Atomic Trauma -- Specimen, Spectacle and the Medicalized Somatography -- The Nuclear Community -- Reconstructing the Human -- Apocalyptic Knowledge |
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Uncanny Nuclear Subjects -- Notes -- 3 The A-List: Atomic Scientists and Bombmakers -- The Credible Scientist and Reputational Capital -- Epistemic Virtues and Credibility -- Atomic Prosopography -- The Scientific Self -- The Genius and the Atomic Hero -- Nuclear Patriotism -- Charisma and Charismatic Authority -- The Moral Scientist -- Notes -- 4 Irradiated Aesthetics: The Atomic Sublime -- The Atomic Sublime -- An Atomic-Industrial Sublime -- Witnessing the Atomic Sublime -- The Catastrophic Sublime -- The Decadent Sublime -- Temporality and the Catastrophic Sublime |
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The Heroic and the Catastrophic Sublime -- Notes -- 5 Planetary Precarity and Anti-Nuclear Cosmopolitanism -- 'One World Or None': Towards Anti-Nuclear Cosmopolitanism -- The (Under)Mining of Land -- Place(ing) Protest -- The Nuclear Terra Nullius -- Exposed: The Nuclearized Non-Human -- Extinction Iconography and the Nuclear Cosmogram -- Near/Extinction Subjects -- Near/Extinction Iconography -- The Nuclear Cosmogram -- Notes -- Bibliography and Filmography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Nuclear physics -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000804584 |
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1000804585 |
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