| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 297 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface / John Canaday -- Introduction : the silence of fallout / Michael J. Blouin, Morgan Shipley and Jack Taylor -- "What works" : instrumentalism, ideology, and nostalgia in post-Cold War culture / Jeff Smith -- Specters of totality : the afterlife of the nuclear age / Aaron Rosenberg -- Queer temporalities of the nuclear condition / Paul K. Saint-Amour -- Apocalypse networks : representing the nuclear archive / Bradley J. Fest -- Cut to black : nuclear criticism in a post-September 11th America / Joseph Dewey -- The pixilated apocalypse : video games and nuclear fears, 1980-2012 / William Knoblauch -- Depiction of destruction : post-Cold War literary representations of storytelling and survival in the nuclear era / Julie Williams -- Allegories of Hiroshima : toward a rhetoric of nuclear modernism / Mark Pedretti -- War as peace : afterlives of nuclear war in David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" / Jessica Hurley -- "The Hunger Games" : Darwinism and nuclear apocalypse narrative in the post-9/11 world / Patrick B. Sharp -- Legacy waste : nuclear culture after the Cold War / Daniel Cordle -- In a dark wud : metaphors, narratives, and nuclear weapons / John Canaday |
| Summary |
This collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear Criticism perpetually re-surfaces in theoretical circles. Given the recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the ripple of anti-nuclear sentiment the event created, as well as the discursive maneuvers that took place in the aftermath, we might pause to reflect upon Nuclear Criticism and its place in contemporary scholarship (and society at-large). Scholars who were active in earlier expressions of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent scholars likewise striving to negotiate the field moving forward. This volume revolves around these dialogic moments of agreement and departure; refusing the silence of complacency, the authors renew this conversation while taking it in exciting new directions. As political paradigms shift and awareness of nuclear issues manifests in alternative forms, the collected essays establish groundwork for future generations caught in a perpetual struggle with legacies of the nuclear |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Nuclear warfare and literature.
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Nuclear warfare in literature.
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Nuclear energy -- Public opinion
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Antinuclear movement.
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Criticism
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Deconstruction.
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Deconstructivism (Architecture)
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literary criticism.
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criticism.
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Deconstructivist.
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deconstruction (theory)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Antinuclear movement
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Criticism
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Deconstruction
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Nuclear energy -- Public opinion
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Nuclear warfare and literature
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Nuclear warfare in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blouin, Michael J., editor, author.
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Shipley, Morgan, editor, author
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Taylor, Jack, III., editor, author.
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| ISBN |
9781443868037 |
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1443868035 |
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1322180008 |
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9781322180007 |
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