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The silence of fallout : nuclear criticism in a post-Cold War world /

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 e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Blouin, Michael J. (Autor, Editor ), Shipley, Morgan (Autor, Editor ), Taylor, Jack, III (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.